[Milsurplus] Fwd: Advice on which caps to keep ( even longer )

[hwhall@aol.com]

 The only way to be sure is measure leakage.  Time consuming.  An initial sorting with a fair degree of confidence might rely on cap value (as noted previously), & physical size vs voltage rating (paper caps tend to be larger for high voltages).  But still the gray-area ones need testing to sort them.
Once you've started testing, you probably find units of same maker & shape/size that are all bad or all good & can sort those faster based on experience.
Is it worth your time?  If not, maybe it's worth it to someone else.
WayneWB4OGM
    On Tuesday, August 29, 2023 at 10:33:03 PM MDT, Kenneth G. Gordon <kgordon2006 at frontier.com> wrote:  
 
 On 30 Aug 2023 at 1:53, hwhall at aol.com wrote:

> 
> "
> Toss any which say "Micamold". They aren't mica: they are paper..."
> 
> This is not 100% true. Micamold made real mica capacitors, too.
> 
> Wayne
> WB4OGM

Yes. They did. But how are you going to sort them out? They look almost identical. It seems 
to me to be huge waste of time.

Ken W7EKB
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