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Chris, After thinking I had it, I looked at that statement again last night and tried to match it with the cap chart, I could see that there was a mistake there. I did a little searching online and realized that there is a six zero difference as you pointed out between micro and micro micro, or pico not three. With a little practice today I should be able to get it streight. If not I can always fall back on a calculator like Phil offered. I have some good tools now and I think I can start puting my cap list together this week.

It's always reassureing to see info like this from Phil's website: (I'm reposting it here for my own quick reference)

"Capacitance values are expressed in units called farads, named after the British physicist Michael Faraday. The capacitors found in radios and TVs have values in tiny fractions of a farad.

A microfarad is one millionth of a farad, abbreviated as mfd, mf, µf, or uf.

A picofarad is one trillionth of a farad, abbreviated as pfd, pf, or µµf.

This website generally uses the abbreviation mfd for microfarads and pf for picofarads.

In vintage radios and TVs, capacitors typically have values in these ranges:
•Electrolytic: 1-200 mfd
•Paper: .001-1 mfd
•Ceramic and Mica: less than .001 mfd

Since a picofard is one trillionth of a microfarad, to convert from microfarads (mfd) to picofarads (pf), you move the decimal point six places to the right. For example:

.47 mfd = 470,000 pf

If you don't like doing such conversions in your head, you can look up the values in this handy chart from Justradios.com."

Thanks!

John