Crazies are at it again 2 Bumblebee caps for?

[fsjonsey]

Originally Posted by 3Guncolor

Anybody that uses those caps in a amp with 500 volts across it is nuts. I will stand by what I'm saying. And how would they know what it would sound like when the cap was new. They only reason I could see to install them would be in a look at only amp that is never used. They were bad then and they are bad now. I wonder how one of these guys would feel if he was playing in a concert and his 40 year old Bumblebee let go in his amp, blowing it up.

Exactly, anyone who would use one of these caps in an HV circuit would be nuts, but i could see them being used in the tone control circuits of guitar pickups.

[Bill Cahill]

All joking aside, I agree with you guys.. I know that when they were brand new, the amps sounded fine, like the new caps do now. But, within a couple of years they were already starting to fail. The people playing the instruments were complainning that the sound was getting distorted.
Watch a Sangamo cap go when it shorts... Beutiful explosion!

These modern collectors are too wet around the ears, and don't know what they are doing. They really need trainning in what this equpment really sounded like new, and tha failure rate.

That is the one thing In old tube equipment, especially with the low grade caps., that failed the most. CAPACITORS!

After that it was tubes, resistors, and audio output transformers. We sure replaced our sharre of those at the tv shop.In Everything. Particularly in the cheaper equipment.
Bill Cahill