[Boatanchors] Micamold Paper Caps

[David C. Hallam]

The arrow always points to the right.

David
KW4DH

On 7/5/2013 7:22 PM, D C _Mac_ Macdonald wrote:
> Is that code with an arrow pointing to the right?
>
> Mac, K2GKK in OKC
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jul 5, 2013, at 18:16, "David C. Hallam" <dhallam at knology.net> wrote:
>
> Micamolds came in both mica and paper and they basically appeared identical.  There is one dot in the color code that told whether it was paper or mica.  On the 6 dot RMA color code, a black dot is mica and a silver dot is paper.  This dot is the upper left hand dot.
>
> David
> KW4DH
>
> 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?

-- 
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
Thomas Jefferson