[Boatanchors] Micamold Recovery

[Brian Carling]

Lee

Help us to learn something here. What is it that makes a radial lead capacitor less desirable then an axial lead capacitor?

Best regards - Bry Carling



> On Jun 4, 2014, at 1:36 PM, "L L bahr " <pulsarxp at embarqmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I'ts reasons and ideas like this that keep me from buying "restored" radios from other hams.  I prefer to buy an unmolested one and then restore one as it should be restored.  Same thing with the boyz who insist on "reforming" a 30 to 40 year old electrolytic. Then when their bias blows up and wipes out the finals and transformer you then have to listen to the crying.  I found that buying a "restored radio" from another ham means if he did replace the can electrolytic, he installed axials or even worse radials under the chassis.
> 
> Yes the Mica Molds were made both as Silver Micas and also as Paper Condensers.  The paper had acid in it and with any moisture became a battery and the silver micas had the silver migrate around the edges or through cracks in the mica.  If you need a mica, use modern ruby red one.  If you need a paper cap, use a poly cap. Only thing worse then a Mica Mold is a Black Beauty cap!
> 
> Lee, w0vt
> 
> 
> 
> Junk parts is junk parts....no matter how much you bake it, coat it, plead
> with it or anything else invented by the 'strokers'.
> If the rig gets here....that stuff will be outta there in the first 5
> minnets.
> 
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