I started a new job back in 1981, and shortly afterward realized that all sorts of equipment in the factory, and lab had water cooling where city water was used, and then ran through heat generating stuff, and then into the sewer. Anyway, there were a number of kluged PVC pipe storms distributing water in all directions. I noticed a Black Cat capacitor sticking out from what appeared to be a busted off pvc pipe end. I dared to ask my boss about this. The story I was told that someone in hast took a wrench to the fitting at the end of an unsupported pvc pipe. Upon turning the fitting, the pvc end busted off resulting in squirting water, and a flood. People scurried about trying to find the shutoff valve, but never did. More water was flooding the engineering lab every minute. My boss then looked for something to plug the hole, and after a number of unsucessful tries, tried a .47uf 400v Black cat capacitor, and with a small hammer, drove it into the pvc pipe end to plug the leak. I was told to never touch it! Now my friends, that is an excellent application for the famous Black cat capacitor! This is a true story. Regards, Jim
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Hello, Actually Sprague had another version of the "black Beauties", and I believe it was the 160P. No stripes and also oil ? filled. The striped ones always cracked or showed leakage but the 160p's have never had a problem, like most P&O's. I've yet to see a Vitamin Q go bad. Especially the mil surp. Did clip several bags of Orangedrops out of a bunch of old TV's a while back. Still find them coming in handy. Enjoy, BILL KB3DKS --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html The reason this message is shown is because the post was in HTML or had an attachment. Attachments are not allowed. To learn how to post in Plain-Text go to: http://www.expita.com/nomime.html --- _______________________________________________ AMRadio mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html The reason this message is shown is because the post was in HTML or had an attachment. Attachments are not allowed. To learn how to post in Plain-Text go to: http://www.expita.com/nomime.html ---
