[ARC5] BC-348 - micamolds

[CARL HUETHER]

There are at least 3 manufactures of paper caps in that format.




> On December 30, 2019 at 3:32 PM "Kenneth G. Gordon" <kgordon2006 at frontier.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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
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