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Old 10-20-2017, 04:30 PM
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I've made one large order from Just radios (~5 years? ago), the shipping cost and wait time to get their stuff into the states makes me usually pick other parts houses, but the quality of parts was plenty good for tube radio and TV work. They mostly stock Orange drop types and those generic Chinese yellow caps.

Some folks here (such as the captain) look down their snoot at yellow caps but I've been raised on them if you will. The professional tube TV and radio repairman who mentored me in my first few years repairing radios the better part of 2 decades ago used them and I have on and off (depending on what I could get my hands on) ever since. I've never had a bad one and aside from the possibility of destroying them by holding a soldering iron to the plastic (made that mistake ~5 times now) there are no drawbacks to them.

When I'm not restuffing caps (which is where the yellow ones shine), I prefer Panisonic caps like these since I can't melt one soldering. http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/...n1p2vhg7KKs%3d

Basically for the papers you select "film capacitors" and for the lytics you select "aluminum electrolytic" in the bigger parts houses catalogs then you use the filters to select capacitance value and DC voltage rating and sort by manufacture and or price. You want to look for parts with long leads if available (saves the work of adding wire on to the cap). You don't have to go with Panisonic or any specific brand...Anything that meets specs (even the cheapest) should work. Old capacitance values like 5, 2, 3 and powers of then multiples there of are not made affordably, best to pick the nearest modern standard value 4.7, 2.2, 3.3 etc.

I'll buy whatever when I'm low on funds or have a HUGE order. I just spent close to $400 on about 60 different part numbers most of which I ordered 10-200 pieces for each part number...most films were panisonic, but I've mixed in some Illinois Capacitor and some Wima, and even more brands if I go into lytics...

Here are a couple of starter pages for mouser.
http://www.mouser.com/Passive-Compon...x371?P=1yp7zip
http://www.mouser.com/Passive-Compon...5hqt?P=1yx4ard

Last tip: be sure to check the in stock box when searching, you don't want to order a non-stocked part with a 3 month lead time/back log.
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