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Posted by Audiodyssey (A) on July 06, 2008 at 12:16:05

In Reply to: RE: Sprague caps (PIO ?? ) posted by Michael Samra on July 06, 2008 at 11:34:44

According to the catalog Vitamin Q oil is: "A substantially linear, controlled, molecular weight hydrocarbon polymer..." I have heard that it contains pcb's, but really in the amounts it is present ( I have cut open Vitamin Q's and other capacitors ) I sincerely doubt it would be any real health risk. Now Matsushita made some oil caps that absolutely flow with oils. John E Fast made some too that have A LOT of oil in them. I found some John E Fast oil caps that also have pure gold leads...and I mean pure gold, not plated. There's some interesting stuff that was made and I'm not saying anything bad about the Vitamin Q, but I have found that John E Fast and Good-All in particular made some highly comparable oil caps during that period. The John E Fast are definitely IMHO better than the Q's and are less likely to be dried out as I have found Q's to be at times.

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• RE: Sprague caps (PIO ?? ) - Michael Samra 14:01:28 07/06/08 (4)
  • RE: Sprague caps (PIO ?? ) - Audiodyssey 15:46:38 07/06/08 (3)
    • RE: Sprague caps (PIO ?? ) - Michael Samra 16:20:41 07/06/08 (1)
      • See the new thread titled "Photo-Dissection" above...(NT) - Audiodyssey 17:03:35 07/06/08 (0)
    • RE: Sprague caps (PIO ?? ) - JANDG 15:56:49 07/06/08 (0)

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