[Boatanchors] Micamold Paper Caps

[Al Klase]

Micamold was the company name.  They made a lot of perfectly legitimate, 
for the time, mica caps.  Then somebody asked for 0.1 uF units, paper 
was the only reasonable answer.  Hardly anybody's paper caps from the 
1940's lasted very long.

Al

On 7/5/2013 6:42 PM, Charles Ring wrote:
>
> On 7/5/2013 1742, Joe Connor wrote:
>> The BC-342 is full of black Micamolds in hard-to-reach places, such 
>> as inside the IF cans and inside the RF boxes under the chassis. Some 
>> variants of the BC-348 are full of them, too.
>>
>> With those black Micamolds, the only question is whether they're 
>> shorted or just leaky.
>>
>>                               Joe Connor
>>
>
> The name Micamold sure suggests they are mica caps, and I innocently 
> believed so for many years. Was this a case of deceptive naming / 
> false advertising?
>

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Al Klase - N3FRQ
Jersey City, NJ
http://www.skywaves.ar88.net/