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Old 23rd May 2009   #25
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Originally Posted by dbbubba View Post
I paid $2K for my MCI JH-538C, but..... it is A LOT of work to get them into decent shape.
The EQ sections on most modules was almost completely useless because the cap had dried out.
I am doing a COMPLETE recap and there are close to 5000 caps in my console.
Figure on spending a lot of time with it.
When I am on a roll each module takes about four hour to completely re-cap.
There are close to sixty-four caps per input module.

Once completed, they are nice sounding consoles!
Hey Danny, how many modules left for recap?, i just bought a second mci and now i have to recap 2 consoles i have 10 modules of each console fully recapped(20 total) still 46 togo AHHHHHHH.
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