Vintage Coupling Caps

jimmy

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I have a 'load' of vintage caps that look just like Black Beauty, but no writing & are color coded. Did Black Beauty ship in that marking to OEM?
 
Black Beauty caps were color coded only as far as I know. I pulled a bag full out of some old piece of electronics and not a one had more than bands of color on the shiney black platic case except for the mold marks.
 
What kind of caps look like a giant tan Chiclet with colored dots like a domino? There are some of those in a Hammond chassis I have.
 
Those are mica caps...

Haven't seen them in many years and have forgotten how to read them, too. You might want to try an old 50s vintage ARRL Radio Handbook for how to read these and other old caps and resistors (like the body/end/dot types).

Cheers,

David
 
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