[Boatanchors] And Now for Something Competely Different: Zenith

[Joe Connor]

Speaking of old capacitors, here's something that you sort of have to see to believe:
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>http://store.gibson.com/capacitors/
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>Bear in mind, that this is Gibson (the major guitar company) selling these. It's not some fly-by-night outfit. Look at the price for two of them. I believe this is simply a modern capacitor with a shell designed to make it look like a black beauty.
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>These caps are .022. My recollection is that an SP-600 (at least any early one) has about 60 .022 caps.. A quick calculation shows that you can replace them with these nifty Gibson reissue caps for the bargain price of  $3.899.70. Sign me up!
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>                             Joe Connor
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