[Milsurplus] BC348 out of storage

[kgordon2006 at frontier.com]

On 3 Aug 2025 at 22:15, Charlie L. wrote:

> 
> The old mica postage stamp caps are known to go bad in all the removable modules, 
> and they can contribute to instability in the HFO and BFO stages.  If it has those large 
> Micamold caps on the terminal boards, I guarantee those are bad and causing issues.
> 
> Charlie, W4MEC

Those cursed "MicaMold" flat, usually dark-brown, plastic-cased, capacitors are total and 
complete pieces of garbage. Every single one of those I have ever tested were bad. ALL 
leaked like a sieve, some were dead short.

And there is absolutely NOTHING "mica" about them: they're simply squashed flat paper 
caps.

Total junk.

Get rid of every single one you ever find anywhere in any radio.

Ken W7EKB