[Boatanchors] Micamold Recovery

[David Stinson]

Ever more good input from you all.  Thanks!

With the exception of three Sprague .02 @ 600V pulls,
the capacitors I'm testing have never been installed- old stock.
They had been in a drafty barn in Texas, summer and winter,
since at least 1954.

Two of you made a good case why wax was the way to go
for re-sealing and it makes sense, so I re-heated the caps
and dipped them while hot in wax.  All still test "good."

My tester for leakage is a ZM-11 bridge- IMHO, a piece
of test gear as indispensible as an oscilloscope if you're 
going to resurrect boatanchors.   The meter has a 
1 mA-full-scale range for testing leakage up to 600V+
and I can see none- no needle movement- 
on any of these 20 caps, which impresses me.

A couple of you suggested a good test I am doing now-
10 of the caps in a Zip-Lock bag with a wet rag
out in the sun for two days.  I'll let them dry a day
and test them again.   Should be interesting.
I think I'll do the same with some "modern"
silver micas and ceramics as a "control."
Films/Polys would certainly pass such a test.

73 DE Dave AB5S