[vcf-midatlantic] Best source for capacitors

Bob Shuster bob at theshusters.com
Tue Jun 28 00:03:01 UTC 2022


Well, aside from the obvious reasons, it’s probably not the greatest idea to replace one old-age failed capacitor with another old-age capacitor!  ;)

Bob

> On Jun 27, 2022, at 7:15 PM, John Heritage <john.heritage at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I was going to suggest harvesting old Apples and Mac's but then I'd probably be beaten up by a few people here ;) 
> 
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2022, 5:12 PM Bob Shuster via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org <mailto:vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org>> wrote:
> In all my years of collecting and using computers, and that’s 100s of computers and video game systems, I’ve never had a capacitor go or needed to replace one.  Until now!  Power supply filter cap on a TRS-80 Model 4.  So where do you guys go for parts?  I’m not looking to stock up, just need some one-offs (probably the X caps.)  Do you just go to Mouser or Digi-Key?  Does anyone have spares?
> 
> Bob Shuster



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