[Boatanchors] micamold caps

[Joe Connor]

Rob:
    What is the value of the cap and what did you pull it out of?
    Here's why I ask. I've worked on a few BC-348s with .01 Micamolds and they were all bad and, I'm assuming, paper. However, I've worked on an R-45/ARR-7 where the caps were .0082, not .01, and all were good. I'm wondering if the .0082 caps were actually mica.
                        Joe Connor 

    On Monday, March 21, 2016 8:34 PM, Rob Atkinson <ranchorobbo at gmail.com> wrote:
 
 

 I am certain I have read or heard here and there over the years that
"Micamold" branded caps, are fake micas, actually paper dielectric
caps in a molded case made to look like genuine postage stamp micas.

Well, tonight I took a bad one I had pulled out of a rig and busted it
apart with a hammer, only to find what certainly appeared to be thin
strips of mica layered on top of each other and sandwiched into metal
grips, one on each end of the cap case and soldered to wire leads.
So, I don't know how anyone got the idea that these are not real mica
caps because the "micamold" that I broke apart certainly appeared to
be the real deal.

73

Rob
K5UJ
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