posted 28 January 2004 10:00 AM
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And although Bob S.'s original pot was a 100K as listed, I have several originals that are 500k ... both vol/tone.I took a "poll" of my Prewar Ricks ...
The capacitors were those "tube" like ones:
The brown TIGER ones:
2 were .1 MFD 400 VDC
7 were .05 MFD 400 VDC
1 was .05 MFD 200 VDC
The orange SPRAGUE ones...
2 were .03 MFD (no VDC listed)
The potentiometers that that were labled said CENTRALAB (Milwaukee) .... most had big black cases ... one had a visible marking on the side that said 500K (volume).
But several of the big black ones checked out to be just under 500K ... a couple were around 250K.
Only one of the smaller metal ones (later prewars) said 500K (tone)... the others were not labled but were 250Ks.
It appears Rickys used whatever was available at the time ... like their tuning machines (strips, metal butterbeans, plastic ovals) and knobs (octagonal, arrows, flying saucers) 
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