[HAM] FW: New Hammond Factory Sound / Recapping etc. PART 2

[Kon Zissis]

Hi everyone.
My big post seems to have been automatically  chopped  and it did not
appear properly  on Hammond zeni so therefore I will try sending the
rest of it  in two more smaller parts.--Kon
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 New Hammond Factory  Sound / Recapping etc. PART 2

Ian Hooper wrote:
>.105, or .255 mfd implies are lot closer tolerance than 20%. Maybe the
rules of the game were different back then, but >when I spec parts for
production, .1 mfd and .105 mfd are most definitely not the same animal,
the latter being a %5 >or better part.  Maybe it's time to open up the
whole 'ESR' can of worms again :) In such low
>impedance circuits, certainly a factor to be considered.

Paul Peters wrote:
>Hammond used four when checking caps. That means the 20% tolerance no 
>longer applies. This whole cap check was to gain higher tolerances.
STOP using 
>that 20% in any speculations.