Kenwood KD 990 recapping

[Black Stuart]

My first KD990 went out of action when the 2 x 2200uF/25V power caps went leaky. I just stashed it and used my second KD deck.

I bought a big bottle of Goo-Gone a couple of years ago and thought it was worth a try to remove the gunge which had dried up - worked a treat. I've cleaned up the surrounding diodes and can't see why they should'nt work fine.

All the electros were Elna and a series now defunct. I shall be replacing all bar the power caps with Panasonic FR, hard to believe that the price of the electros for both decks is about £9. Nichicon RZ 2200uF 25V are half the size of the original power caps and rated for 10000 hours.

Removing the boards was easy, those Kenwood engineers thought of everything. If I need to replace the transistors they too are easily available from a Russian company that bought out the Samsung/Kenwood spares.