[HAM] Recapping again, was: Overdrive

[mike p]

 The point about matching is that it is supposed to be done (in theory) to
> YOUR individual filters. Someone can't sit in a store and "match" anything
> to nothing. Funny that John posted that "caps in a bag" won't work, and
> yet, that's what you bought from him. I guess if they are being
> hand-selected to all be close to .105 makes them far better than a random
> collection of .1 orange drops.

Scott ,   I never said the Hammond store set came out of a bag.  It is a 
comeplete set of close tolerance caps .  He even was so kind to make up the 
R/C networks for me on terminal strips  so all I have to do is slip it under 
the mounting screws of the perspective coils.    What else can someone do 
without having the generator in their shop ?

I also am curious to know -  At the factory we have discussed that the 
matchers had bins of caps to choose from .  Speaking of the .105 type now , 
what was the range of their selection that they had to choose from ?  Maybe 
I'm not getting the picture here ,  did they have for example a .103 bin,  a 
.104 bin,  and so on ?   What did they range from ?

If I had ordered from an electronics store  at a 10% expected tolerance my 
range would be  from .090 to .110  in theory based on a .100 cap because 
they do not make .105 .   If this is the case I would take any of these as 
opposed to whats in there now.  I had a .303  and quite  few in the .250+ 
range .  Of course if you're going to go through the trouble of this project 
then you are going to want as consistant a set of caps as you can get.   It 
is not economical for me to buy a quantity of 500 bag caps to come up with a 
set to do one generator but for someone in the business that does generators 
every month of the year ,  they probably buy them in Qty of 1000  to get a 
better rate too and lots of possibilities to make sets .  This is who I 
would rather buy from and thats what I did.     Going to work more on this 
today,  will let you all know when the deed is done   - Mike P