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Originally Posted by dieseljeep
I've been working on this stuff for 55+ years and I've never heard of that O'donnell brand of capacitor. They must've been replaced at one time in the life of this set.
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I've never seen that particular brand before either. However, they really did look original. Sometimes you can get a pretty strong indication by how the capacitor is nested amont the other components and wires, the state of the solder joints, and the lengths of the leads. I'm pretty sure that every capacitor in here was original, except for the big bumblebee-like tan/grey cap visible in the "before" photo a few pages back.
This set had capacitors from O'Donnell, Aerovox, C-D, and Good-All. Looking carefully at the caps, I was surprised to see the home town of Good-All was Ogallala, Nebraska. If you've ever been there, it's a pretty small town in the far west of Nebraska, with not much else around. Good-All was probably the most famous company to ever manufacture something there!
In 1946-47, the supply of capacitors may have been a little dicey, with the nation's industry transitioning from war production to consumer goods. Not much of anything shipped in 1946 for electronics. Perhaps this overall situation led to some no-name caps being used by a big name manufacturer.
Just a guess, though.
06-16-2012, 12:04 AM
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