1961 zenith 16H32 “the barrett”

[LADR]

I sold the bumblebee cap on ebay for $25. I got a sams for the set and its helping ALOT. When I order rest of the parts for this set, that should be it. I am sick of working on it.

[davet753]

Originally Posted by LADR

I sold the bumblebee cap on ebay for $25. I got a sams for the set and its helping ALOT. When I order rest of the parts for this set, that should be it. I am sick of working on it.

Please excuse my ignorance, but I can't figure out why people are buying bumble bee caps on ebay. I replace every one I find, and have thrown away hundreds of them over the years. My experience with bumblebee caps is they're a ticking time bomb, just waiting to split open and cause problems.

If they're worth something to somebody, I guess I ought to be hanging on to them.

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by davet753

Please excuse my ignorance, but I can't figure out why people are buying bumble bee caps on ebay. I replace every one I find, and have thrown away hundreds of them over the years. My experience with bumblebee caps is they're a ticking time bomb, just waiting to split open and cause problems.

If they're worth something to somebody, I guess I ought to be hanging on to them.

Some very valuable electric guitars used them as the OEM caps. The application only has a few mV- maybe a volt across the caps. So even ones that would smoke your TVs flyback will do the job in a guitar...On a $700 restoration of a $5K guitar 60 bucks for the correct original type caps that give the correct sound is nothing...At least to that market.

[init4fun]

Originally Posted by davet753

Please excuse my ignorance, but I can't figure out why people are buying bumble bee caps on ebay. I replace every one I find, and have thrown away hundreds of them over the years. My experience with bumblebee caps is they're a ticking time bomb, just waiting to split open and cause problems.

If they're worth something to somebody, I guess I ought to be hanging on to them.

For real , there are people who believe bumble bee caps have some sort of "magical" ability to give the Rock & Roll fuzzy distortion sound that will make them the next big thing . It's not your fellow vintage vacuum tube equipment restorers buying them , it's musicians in their never ending quest to pair "Art" with electronics to = rich & famous .

And to the rest of us , they're worthless , so if you can get $25 for each one of them on Ebay , by all means sell as many of em as ya got !!!!

[maxhifi]

Originally Posted by LADR

I sold the bumblebee cap on ebay for $25. I got a sams for the set and its helping ALOT. When I order rest of the parts for this set, that should be it. I am sick of working on it.

Wait, what?? Really?? I've been throwing those in the garbage, man, I could have bought myself something really nice if I'd saved all the ones I've trashed.

[LADR]

Originally Posted by maxhifi

Wait, what?? Really?? I've been throwing those in the garbage, man, I could have bought myself something really nice if I'd saved all the ones I've trashed.

The cap I sold was a .022 which is one of the more popular ones. IIRC, the cap sold rather quickly.

[maxhifi]

Originally Posted by LADR

The cap I sold was a .022 which is one of the more popular ones. IIRC, the cap sold rather quickly.

I know I've got some 0.047s kicking around, and maybe some others.. gotta have a look around tonight, I hope I didn't toss them all.