[Boatanchors] Failing Mica Caps.

[Peter Markavage]

In 50 years of hamming, I've never had to urge to own anything Collins so
the issue of "Collins" and "mica capacitors" never came into play. . I do
own an R-388 and R-390A which were forced upon me back in the mid 90's
(i.e. from the original owner - please take these away), both of which
still work very well. I have never replaced a single cap in either one of
them since acquiring them.

Pete, wa2cwa


On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:24:36 -0700 (PDT) Glen Zook <gzook at yahoo.com>
writes:
> If you have owned a Collins 75A-4 and haven't had a mica capacitor 
> fail then you definitely have been "blessed"!  It is my experience 
> that mica capacitors don't fail anywhere near as often as paper 
> capacitors.  But, they do fail fairly often.
> 
> Glen, K9STH
>