Magnavox Astrosonic Stereo Console Disassembly and Re-Cap - Part 1 

I used 56mfd caps in mine and they sounded fine

i got a bunch of Archer capacitors on ebay they made it sound much better than the originals

Thanks for this! I'm working on a similar model and was having some real trouble figuring out what to do in terms of replacing those two big filter caps. The idea of just leaving them in place and subbing in the new ones underneath makes perfect sense, and seems far simpler than fussing with those metal tabs and whatnot.

I really appreciate your work. I have a few of these I would like to refurbish and knowing that it's actually doable gives me a little hope. Cheers.

I NEVER bulk re-caps i figure if it's not broke don't fix it

I am trying to put the same combo into another console. Do you happen to have the pin out information for the power/control cable between them? I need to make one to connect the two. Any help would be appreciated. Cheers Mark

Damn no part two. Just got one of these and was itching to see it together

Can you walk me through the set up fof Shagoo's dirty capacitor tester? TIA 😀

In that day, the tolerance on aluminum electrolytic caps was quite broad. High quality Sprague caps were -80/+75%. Those plastic body caps were much lower quality so, probably had a tolerance of -50/+100%. I even saw failures of those even after just a few years of age, it was common for the case to crack and drip electrolyte. For most manufacturers of those console stereos, the change over from vacuum tube to transistor circuits occurred in 1965/1966. That Magnavox was probably a top of the line model, being solid state and it even has the FM multiplexer; an expensive option then that most console stereos didn't have in 1964 (when your Magnavox wasmanufactured). Everyone designed with germanium in that day and with the low temperature rating, those transistor can undefuse and return to sand just sitting on the shelf, not even being used.

Could you show how u wired in the new filter caps? Or a pic? I’m confused on the +and- connection. Thanks.

are you referring to Jordan Pier? you already mentioned Shango

i have a reciver very similar to that one but cant find where the power and audio connections are for the record player

i think the shiny caps [stereo fm board] are polystyrene

The filter caps that you are speaking of at 12:00 mark, I have a very similar Magnavox Astro-Sonic amp with 3 of those cardboard cap cans. One of the floating caps have what seems like 2 ground lugs, where 2 diodes are connected (one on each lug). I am guessing that they did that for a cleaner job and could have just connected both diodes to the same ground lug. What do you think?

it DOES sound good now🙂

resistors are another thing that should be checked and replaced if out of tolerance

are you familiar with Allied?

Where did you find the schematics?

are those resistors 1/2 watt or 1 watt? they look quite big

that looks more like a 1965 or '66 model

1964 MODEL RECORD CHANGER

more like 1965 or'66