Quote:
Originally Posted by Electronic M
.01 and .1 are 2 of the most commonly used values and the ones I stock in the highest quantity (not uncommon for me to replace 100 of those in a year)....you must have barely been working on anything or working on a lot of oddball stuff to not have used them for 8 years! 
The others while not as high usage ain't exactly oddballs either.
With the number of threads you post I figured you'd be working on more stuff than that tale implies. |
Well a lot of my messages are asking about stuff that I see at flea markets and antique malls and seeing if I should bother getting it or not, which some of that stuff I've passed on, because you guys said the price was too much for what it was.
Also I've had many radio projects over the years that I just had to scrap out because they had too many issues with them that wasn't worth my time fixing.
I've worked on probably 40 radios and record players over the course of 15 years and I've only had about 20 of them that were successful repairs that I had either kept or sold, the rest were junked out for various reasons including bad wiring, bad speaker, or I just couldn't get the radio to receive any stations no matter how many tubes or IF cans I replaced.
So no, it isn't surprising that I had sat on those capacitors for 8 years before using them, and that's because I only bought or was given maybe 2 radios a year for most of that time. It's only been within the past 6 years that I've been able to get more than 2 radios a year.