Don't let the "mica" caps fool ya. I chased an AGC problem for two days
before I found a bad "mica" buried in an IF can. That was the straw that
broke the camels back. I then replaced ALL micas along with every bumble
bee, which, by the way, were all cracked.

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Regards,
Gary...WZ1M
"Chuck Harris" wrote in message
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Ancient_Hacker wrote:

Also bad news are those pea-green molded caps with the color bands.
Many Trans-Oceanics have around two dozen of those, all leaky.

I havent seen any major problem with postage-stamp or dipped

There is one variety of capacitor that looks like the silver mica
"postage stamp" type of capacitor with all of the dots, but isn't
a mica at all. It is just a paper capacitor. They are usually
dark brown in color, and fail at about the same rate as normal wax/paper
capacitors.

-Chuck