31-12-2020, 11:41 AM
Hi Mike,
To be fair to Jeffrey, that's how I read it too. If it had ended with "so radial it is!!", then he and I wouldn't have jumped to the incorrect conclusion. That's the trouble with engineers - we can get hung up on small details. It's also the problem with communicating in plain text with someone we've only just met
Personally, I recommend these: https://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/aluminium...s/1085254/
They are rather more expensive compared to some of the radial types, but not prohibitively so. They look so much better in a vintage set than modern axial types - especially on a PCB where the originals were laid down, so radial replacements have to have their legs stretched across the gap between the holes in the PCB (one of my personal bugbears). It might be different when axial caps are no longer available, but we're not there yet.
Mark
To be fair to Jeffrey, that's how I read it too. If it had ended with "so radial it is!!", then he and I wouldn't have jumped to the incorrect conclusion. That's the trouble with engineers - we can get hung up on small details. It's also the problem with communicating in plain text with someone we've only just met
Personally, I recommend these: https://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/aluminium...s/1085254/
They are rather more expensive compared to some of the radial types, but not prohibitively so. They look so much better in a vintage set than modern axial types - especially on a PCB where the originals were laid down, so radial replacements have to have their legs stretched across the gap between the holes in the PCB (one of my personal bugbears). It might be different when axial caps are no longer available, but we're not there yet.
Mark
