[ARC5] BC-348 - micamolds

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 30 Dec 2019 at 18:00, Joe Connor via ARC5 wrote:

> notoriously unreliable Micamold caps and usually reliable mica caps. Micamolds
> are square .01 caps that look like mica caps but are actually paper. I replace
> them all because in my experience, the Micamolds are either shorted or about to
> short out. 

Micamold paper caps can look exactly like oblong, rectangular mica caps, 
and have various values. 

As far as I am concerned, those pieces of crap are, possibly, the worst small 
fixed-value capacitors I have ever run across.

In a recent restoration of an NC-57, exactly ONE of the 15 or so of those in 
that receiver was not so leaky as to be almost a dead-short. All the rest were.

If that BC-348 has any of those junky pieces of garbage in it, get them ALL 
out asap and before you fire it up.

Ken W7EKB