[NJARC] Black Beauties

Harry Klancer klancer2 at comcast.net
Mon Mar 5 21:30:23 EST 2007


Nick,

Don't know if they were "military", but I recently worked on
a Zenith Transoceanic that had a load of them with the bumblebee
stripes.

                            Harry K

Nick Senker wrote:
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> Marv has an interesting article in this month's 'Broadcaster' about black beauty capacitors.  I seem to recall seeing a color code chart for resistors and capacitors which refered to the 'bumble bee' type with colored stripes as 'military types'.  Were these widely used by the military?
> By the way, the ebay listing that started this discussion was for two 'bumble bee' caps that went for over $100!  Nick Senker
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