Funny you should mention that. Back around the end of high school, I worked at an AM/FM radio station in the engineering department. We had, like every radio station at the time (mid 1980s) a lot of ITC cart machines in our studios. Those cart machines were full of caps like these that all eventually dried up and failed. We replaced so many of these caps that there eventually came to be a bin box in our shop full of them labeled "ITC droppings" by our chief engineer.
When I saw the high res photo of that cap, that's the first thing that I pictured in my mind, all those dead caps. On 2011 Jun 29, at 10:04 , Adam Jacobs wrote: > That was the first thing I noticed, too. Those are the old paper & oil > electrolytic caps, I think. In tube radios it is common practice to replace > those as fast as possible. They have a nasty habit of shorting closed when > they fail and taking out expensive and difficult to replace components when > they do. > > -Adam > > On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 9:51 AM, David Forbes <[email protected]> wrote: > On 6/29/11 2:04 AM, Wayne de Geere III wrote: > > Now that seller has got a full old clock with a bunch of cathode > poisoned looking tubes in it for sale: > check out the money shot: http://jpegbay.com/gallery/001031521-.html#9 > > > That is a nice vintage clock. It looks like it was made as a production item > - note the fancy metal and wooden case work. > > It's amazing that it still works after all those 35 years. Those electrolytic > caps look ancient. > > -- > David Forbes, Tucson AZ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "neonixie-l" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "neonixie-l" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB.
