[Boatanchors] Capacitors

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

Hmmm.  Strange.  The only potted ones I've encountered were some that were 
rebuilt by someone else.  Who cut the can instead of opening the crimp.

In a message dated 08/16/2011 05:55:35 AM Central Daylight Time, 
ranchorobbo at gmail.com writes: 
> every can cap I look at seems to have been potted.
> 
> Rob
> K5UJ
> 
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 11:44 PM, <WA5CAB at cs.com> wrote:
> 
> >A much better method is to remove the canned capacitor, open up the 
> bottom
> >crimp, pull out the contact plate, and re-stuff them with new ones.  
> Radial
> >lead types are pretty much worthless (if you care what your work looks
> >like)
> >for under chassis replacements but work quite well for re-stuffing cans.  
> I
> >did about 20 of them last year in a PP-351.  Aside from the silicon 
> bridges
> >in place of selenium (and the fact that it works quite well 56 years on),
> >no one would know that I had ever been into it.
> 

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