[NJARC] Valuable vintage capacitors

[john ruccolo]

Nick/Folks,

I sent my previous response before looking at the ebay
listing. HOLY SMOKE! ONE HUNDRED BUCKS FOR TWO *USED*
SPRAGUE BUMBLE BEE CAPS! Will the insanity ever stop?

The big joke is that these guys say "it measures
so-and-so on my cap meter." They know damn well that a
cap can be leaky as hell and still measure at or near
its rated value on a cap meter. There was a great
little article about that years ago in ARC -- by Alan
Douglas, I think.

Later,

JR

--- Nick Senker <ns539 at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Visit our web site - See http://www.njarc.org
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> Could someone comment on these 'bumble bee' caps
> (John Ruccolo?).  I've seen them and have some but
> don't know anything about them.  Nick Senker
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Dave Sica <davesica at juno.com>
> >Sent: Sep 17, 2006 12:43 PM
> >To: njarc at mailman.qth.net
> >Subject: [NJARC] Valuable vintage capacitors
> >
> >Visit our web site - See http://www.njarc.org
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> >Check out eBay auction # 320025083125.  If you buy
> these caps, I suppose
> >you also have to use Western Electric solder to
> install them :-) !
> >
> >--Dave Sica
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