[Hallicrafters] Orange Drops at CDE

[Todd, KA1KAQ]

To the best of my knowledge, Orange Drops have been available continually
since their inception and were still made in Barre, VT on the original
Sprague equipment by SBE until recently when Ed sold the line to CDE. SBE
also made the Vishay Orange drops and labeled them for Vishay according to
a friend who worked for both Sprague then SBE.

Looks like CDE bought the works. Someone else posted a message to one of
the groups from CDE about a delay while the equipment is moved from VT to
Mexicali.

Other than US jobs, the good thing about having them made by SBE was that
they would make custom runs in different values, even different colors. A
few years back on these lists I tried to drum up interest to get some
batches run(specific values/voltages, axial vs radial leads, etc) and was
told "Why bother when there are other companies selling stuff that will
work?".  Learned my lesson. In the bigger scheme of things. apparently the
owner did, too.

~ Todd,  KA1KAQ/4


On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 4:58 PM, <radio at daileyservices.com> wrote:

> The techrep at MOUSER just wrote me that the "orange drop" capacitor line
> has been purchased by CDE.  Vishay/Sprague has discontinued the line, so
> maybe they're around, after all.
>
> Tom - W0EAJ
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