[ARC5] Mica Capacitor

[Richard Knoppow]

    I am not sure all Orange Drop caps are the same. This was originally 
a trade name for a plastic and paper cap made by Sprague, who also made 
the Black Beauty.  They were intended for circuit board mounting.  There 
are later orange colored dipped caps which are not the plastic and paper 
type. For instance the polypropylene caps I've used in several radios 
recently are rather orange colored.  Ugly is in the eye of the beholder 
and I am more concerned with the performance.

On 9/18/2016 4:55 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon wrote:
> On 18 Sep 2016 at 17:53, WA5CAB--- via ARC5 wrote:
>
>> Cracking at the lead entry point is one of the reasons that I have always hated Orange Drops.
>
> I hate Orange Drops on general principles: they have to be the ugliest capacitor ever made,
> and they look so completely weird in any "restored" BA. They are garish, hard to use (what
> with the leads coming out the sides) and I won't use them.
>
> Ken W7EKB
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Richard Knoppow
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