[Hallicrafters] "Bargain" Capacitors

[Mike Everette]

About 8 years ago when the last of our local parts houses went belly-up, I bought a ton of components... many caps of course.  They had new bags -- five-packs, even -- of ORIGINAL BBODs** hanging on the wall racks which had been there for centuries.  I wish now that I'd gotten those and put them on eVilBay for the audiophools and Alexandre Dumas(s)es.  Maybe I could retire....

(**BBOD = Black Beauties of Death, to the uninitiated)

73

Mike
W4DSE

--- On Fri, 11/2/12, Joe Connor <joeconnor53 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Joe Connor <joeconnor53 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Hallicrafters] "Bargain" Capacitors
> To: "boatanchors" <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>, "hammarlund at mailman.qth.net" <hammarlund at mailman.qth.net>, "hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net" <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Friday, November 2, 2012, 6:29 AM
> I can't believe this isn't a goof.
> Gibson is now selling reproduction black beauties for only
> $129.99 per pair:
> 
> http://store.gibson.com/historic-spec-bumble-bee-capacitors-two-pack/
> 
> Maybe their web address should be
> www.afoolandhismoneyaresoonparted.com 
> 
> 
> At these prices, I figure my next SP-600 or SX-28 will cost
> only about $5,000 to recap.
> 
> 
>                                     
> Joe Connor
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