[Boatanchors] Micamold Recovery

[David C. Hallam]

I think if you look at the Radio Daze website under vintage electronics 
components color coding you will see what I mean.  There were molded 
capacitors in mica and in paper which looked exactly alike except for 
the color dot.

David
KW4DH

On 6/4/2014 1:37 PM, Rob Atkinson wrote:
> 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

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