rec.arts.theatre.stagecraft

"VWWall"
Phil Allison wrote:
>>
>>> That was probably not a paper cap, but an electrolytic, with
>>> considerable voltage across it. When they blew, the remains looked like
>>> a chicken had been plucked and the feathers left behind!
>>>
>>> They still blow, but most are now in aluminium cans, not a cardboard
>>> tube like the older ones.
>>
>>
>> ** Nonsense.
>>
>> Electro caps were then and still are now all fitted into aluminium cans,
>> then sealed at the top with a rubber gasket to prevent loss of the
>> volatile electrolyte. The can was connected to the negative terminal of
>> the capacitor and a wire lead welded to the closed end.
>>
>> 1950s and early 1960 examples were typically covered in cardboard tubes -
>> usually reddish brown in colour.
>
>
> I have in my hands a red, yellow, and blue one. The can is much thinner
> than the recent electrolytics which use the can as a mount.



** Oh - SOOOO now they DO have an aluminium can ??

Musta been hiding inside that gaudy cardboard - eh ??



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** BOLLOCKS !!

Why don't you go and FUCK yourself

- you posturing, bullshitting ASSHOLE !!.





...... Phil