[TV MAN]

Hey all, I was reading in another thread that heat is not good on these yellow caps. These are the inexpensive caps from AES. Are these a bad choice for tube electronics?
   

[klondike98]

I think they are fine for vintage radios, just don't bump it with your soldering iron. I also try to put a heat sink clip between any component I'm soldering and the iron, if I have room but that may be overkill...others will surely have opinions

[Jamie]

I agree. Those are fine. Like Bob said, keep the soldering iron from touching them and you'll be fine.

[LASJayhawk]

I've had good luck with the AES yellow caps. The white ones that Mouser sells melt if you look at them funny, let alone touch for 2 nanoseconds with a soldering iron...

[Arran]

I've only used the axial lead yellow caps from Radio Daze and WJOE radio. The finish or the WJOE ones is a bit rough but they test fine on a bridge, and they do not melt. The Radio Daze ones are a mixture of Illinois Capacitors and ones labeled identical to the AES ones with the values in Picofarads, neither of those have any problems with melting on installation either.
Regards
Arran

[morzh]

I use them but those yellow axials I bought though Mouser and they are made by Cornell-Dubilier.

So I am not sure why yellow matters but to me the definition "yellow axial capacitor" has very little sense other than describing appearance of wide variety of caps.

[TV MAN]

Thanks for the replies guys. I worded things like I did (for no other reason) because of the thread "Starting work on my 19B, post #14

http://www.philcoradio.com/phorum/showth...p?tid=8069[/url]

I didnt want to burn up something in the process of the fixing. If there are better caps to use, or if these are the wrong ones, I want to know. They all look the same to me, IC, Sprague and the generics I have been buying from AES.

[morzh]

Tim


A film cap is a film cap. As long as it is from a reputable source.
I dop not know where AES gets theirs, I buy my parts through major catalogs like Mouser/Digikey, they list all manufacturers for every part.

[codefox1]

Well if there are a dozen or so, you could replace 'em all for few dollars and be done.