Why waste money on capacitors when you have Gummi Bears?

[Phil Nelson]

From a visitor to my website. I like people with a sense of humor.

Actually not a bad way to keep track of things if you're replacing a bunch of capacitors at once. Green = .01, Yellow = .02, whatever . . . .

Phil Nelson

[bgadow]

Might be better than some old black beauties...

Dumb old story: when I was 13-14 we put on a little skit in school in which my friend Lee was a mad scientist and I was Igor, his assistant. We were working on a robot. By this time I already had a junkbox full of parts, scavenged from some old radios I had destroyed So, we dumped it into the back and Lee would dig parts out...the highpoint was him pulling out an old Aerovox paper cap and screaming at me "What is this, Igor, bubble gum?!" And I replied, in my dumbest voice "Bubblicious!!!".

It was funny, to me, back then.

[jeyurkon]

Not a bad idea! But I'd end up eating five for every one that I used.

John

[dtuomi]

Maybe those silly fake marshmallows in the Lucky Charms cereal might work better. They're largely inedible so you'll stay out of them, yet they do come in colors.

David

[bandersen]

I'd love to make a poster out of that and hang it in my workshop

[Reece]

Those gummi candies'll pull out your fillings. Don't ask how....well, you know. Moral: don't eat old capacitors.

[wa2ise]

And then there's that gummy wire they used in the early 60's in TV sets.