[ARC5] replacing C3 and C8 of BC453A

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 30 Jan 2015 at 15:18, Roy Morgan wrote:

> 
> 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 have always believed they were....

> 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 inaccessible place.

Sigh....so typical...

Nothing that is important can be dealt with easily.

Ken W7EKB

> 
> Roy
> 
> Roy Morgan
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Kenneth G. Gordon W7EKB

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