[Boatanchors] Micamold Recovery

[Rob Atkinson]

That has never been my understanding--micas are real mica and called
mica capacitors.  micamolds are bogus with a paper dielectric.  By the
way, some old micas get leaky due to silver migrating in the
dielectric.

73

Rob
K5UJ

On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 12:17 PM, David C. Hallam <dhallam at knology.net> wrote:
> I think some of what we call "micamold" capacitors can be either mica or
> paper.  If they have a 6 dot color code and the upper left hand dot is
> either black or silver, it probably marked with the old AWS code.  A black
> dot meant a mica capacitor and a silver dot meant a paper capacitor.
>
> David
> KW4DH