[Boatanchors] Sprague TO-6A

[k0ewu at juno.com]

RE Sprague caps- The notorious "Black Beauties" are molded black things
with color stripes or yellow printing and some with silver printing. The
caps wth red printing seem to escape the dreaded BBOD moniker (black
beauty of death).  I have quite a few of the red printed ones, all ok.
jack
 
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 22:39:04 -0700 "Ken Kaplan" <krkaplan at cox.net>
writes:
> It's ironic but I guess not surprising that the Sprague TO-6A that I 
> just acquired 
> contains 9 of those Sprague black tubular caps. Not the so called 
> Black Beauties 
> with the color stripes. I guess these are slightly newer models with 
> printed values on 
> them. The 3 electrolytics are Sprague Atoms. Are they notorious too? 
> Looks like I'll 
> have to shotgun as it's a bit difficult to test the tester with the 
> tester <g>. Hope the 
> orange drops get along with the Sprague vibes.
> 
> 73 Ken kb7rgg
> 
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