[ARC5] replacing C3 and C8 of BC453A

[Roy Morgan]

On Jan 30, 2015, at 12:35 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon <kgordon2006 at frontier.com> wrote:

> C-3, 100 pfd, is the white tubular capacitor on the bottom of the "socket" for 
> the antenna coil ...
> And C-8, 200 pfd, is the white tubular job mounted on the bottom of the 
> mixer-tube's socket.

Do I understand correctly that these small white-bodied tubular capacitors are ceramic?

I found a shorted one in an SX-88 front end.  It had fried a plate dropping resistor and itself and was in a quite in accessible place.

Roy

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