Can I use Orange drops to replace Bumble bees?

[Einar72]

Originally Posted by bandersen

You could, but I think you'll find the spacing on Sprague 'orange drops' much too far apart. Caps like the radial 'orange dips' justradios.com sells or Panasonic caps available from Digi-Key and Mouser will be a better fit.

http://ca.mouser.com/Panasonic/Passi...yzvjj0Z1z0z7l5

Frankly (as I have said before), I'm not very fond of Matsushita Industries, having decimated the American TV/stereo industry some decades ago They bought up Motorola's TV division and jerked every American employee but good before shutting the operaation down:

http://www.zoklet.net/totse/en/polit.../pbsjapan.html

As far as the no-name "orange dip" caps, you are buying a pig in a poke, since you can't find where they come from (probably overseas).

Having said all that, many Orange Drops are also made in Communist China, the mfr. simply trying to be price-competitive (some are still made here). What I do is cruise eBay and local venues looking for NOS Sprague, Aerovox, Pyramid, Arco, etc. If you HAVE to put foreign-made parts in your 50-year-old TV, buy ASC (American Shizuki Co.). They are still made in the old TRW plant in Ogallala, Nebraska. I talked with their reps in my office back in '88 or '89, back when Japan, Inc. was swallowing up what companies they hadn't run out of business.