Peter Dahl used to sell some oil filled caps. You may find some on ebay. Ebay also has a commercial electronics parts section, you can find many more parts there than in the ham radio section.
I have a lot of oil filled caps, but have no idea if they have pcb's or not. I doubt you would have a problem unless they leak or explode, and I never had one blow up, but don't run any cap close to its voltage rating. I don't have any that are leaking, not that I know of anyway. I don't doubt pcb's are very bad for you, but don't loose sleep at night about sealed capacitors. You don't want to eat after handling caps, and wash your hands after handling many electronic components, pcb's, lead, mercury, all bad news, but only if you eat it. I had myself tested for lead poisoning, since I do a lot of soldering. My lead levels were very low, as I said, you have to eat the stuff somehow. Get rid of any leaking oil filled caps, clean the area, throw out the clean up stuff, and wash your hands. Mercury vapor tubes are real nasty, you cant throw them out in the trash, (at least you should not), a real toxic waste problem, go to the gas rectifiers. In the landfill, mercury gets into the water table, maybe poisoning your children, and their kids. Just because it does not kill YOU instantly does not mean its safe, people have very different levels of tolerance, some don't react to high levels of some things, others react to low levels, long term low level exposure can cause problems. Brett N2DTS > > > > Next is to remove the 2uF/6KV pcb caps > > Speaking of HV caps .. > > Does anyone know a source for caps in the range of 2-4uF at 3- > 4KV. I haven't had much luck coming up with anything at the usual > places, such as Fair, Newark, SSN, RF Parts, etc. Sent an email to > Chicago Condenser, but they didn't see fit to respond .... > > Grant/NQ5T > > _______________________________________________ > AMRadio mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio
