[Premium-Rx] Replacing old tantalums?

[GandalfG8 at aol.com]

In a message dated 13/04/2009 21:23:43 GMT Daylight Time,  
ronott at sbcglobal.net writes:

It is  the cost of new tantalums that has me in shock - about $60 each in 
the Mouse  catalog and I need four.  They are for a nice HP8660C that was  
working fine a couple years ago when I put it on the  shelf.


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Whoops......
 
You had me in shock too, enough to cause me to send an empty  reply:-)
 
I don't know what you're looking at but it must be something pretty  exotic.
 
I've just checked a fairly typical bead tantalum, 4u7 at 16v, in the UK  
Farnell catalogue and can source those for the equivalent of 20 to 30 cents  
each!
 
regards
 
Nigel
GM8PZR