[Boatanchors] Failing Mica Caps.

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Dear Glen,

Let me personally thank you 'again' for the absolutely outstanding job you 
do of supplying free technical assistance to so many Hams and on so many 
tubes from different sockets! Bless you OM.

And "IF" the rest of you have not thanked Glen, or whomever on whichever 
list about whatever, do it!


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glen Zook" <gzook at yahoo.com>
To: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>; "Peter Markavage" <manualman at juno.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 9:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Failing Mica Caps.


> 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
>
> Website:  http://k9sth.com
>
>
> --- On Tue, 10/14/08, Peter Markavage <manualman at juno.com> wrote:
>
> From: Peter Markavage <manualman at juno.com>
>
> I've never had a mica cap failure on any rig I've owned, although I did 
> drop some new ones on the floor a number of years ago, and accidentally 
> stepped on them. Total failure in this case.
>
>
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