sweetbeats
Reel deep thoughts...
I got the caps permanently mounted and replaced what wire I could. It really should all be replaced. The insulation on the individual conductors has dried out and is cracked and brittle. 
Put a new power cord on at least and a grounded one at that and strapped the ground lead to the compressor. Its a start.
Anyway the thing gets cold enough to be a freezer and its been running strong all weekend.
Here is a view of the "guts"...you can see the twisted black and red wires which lead to the new series cap array, and you can also see the new power cord and ground lead. I replaced all the ring terminals inside that little black box to the right of the caps. I think that may be a relay in there.
The second pic is a closeup of the caps. I found two ring clamps that fit the cap cans perfectly and then soldered and crimped the leads and put some teflon "spaghetti" tubing over the exposed cap tails...bolted up to that bracket like it belonged there.
Cleaned it up, put it all back together and now it sits proudly next to the upgright freezer in the garage. Don't know if well keep it, but its hard to think of getting rid of it when it works so effectively...even if it uses sulpher dioxide and has old dangerous wiring. I'm a sucker for old really heavy stuff that works good and sounds cool.
Put a new power cord on at least and a grounded one at that and strapped the ground lead to the compressor. Its a start.
Anyway the thing gets cold enough to be a freezer and its been running strong all weekend.
Here is a view of the "guts"...you can see the twisted black and red wires which lead to the new series cap array, and you can also see the new power cord and ground lead. I replaced all the ring terminals inside that little black box to the right of the caps. I think that may be a relay in there.
The second pic is a closeup of the caps. I found two ring clamps that fit the cap cans perfectly and then soldered and crimped the leads and put some teflon "spaghetti" tubing over the exposed cap tails...bolted up to that bracket like it belonged there.
Cleaned it up, put it all back together and now it sits proudly next to the upgright freezer in the garage. Don't know if well keep it, but its hard to think of getting rid of it when it works so effectively...even if it uses sulpher dioxide and has old dangerous wiring. I'm a sucker for old really heavy stuff that works good and sounds cool.
