Re: CD 942 Possible Flaw Found

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Original poster: Mark Broker <mbroker-at-thegeekgroup-dot-org> 

Terry,

This is good news about the cap!

How do you take such closeup pictures of things?  Flatbed scanner?  Digital 
camera?  I'm sure many here would like to know ;)

Cheers!

Mark Broker
Chief Engineer, The Geek Group


On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 17:09:05 -0700, Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:

>Original poster: Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-twfpowerelectronics-dot-com>
>
>Hi Harold,
>
>It is just a fleck of the solder like material (sloopage, or some odd name 
>they have for it??) they use to put on the end caps.  The inside of the 
>cap is perfectly clean.
>
>http://hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/CD942flaw.JPG
>
>They just wrap the white outer layer tape last and dirt gets under just 
>that layer.  This outside contamination, while a bit messy, does no harm 
>at all.  The important inner wraps are clean as can be.
>
>Thanks for sending the cap ;-))
>
>Cheers,
>
>         Terry
>
>
>
>  > Original poster: "Harold Weiss" <hweiss-at-new.rr-dot-com>
>  >
>  > Hi All,
>  >
>  > I had just done a trade for some Geek caps with Mark Broker.  When I was
>  > looking them over I found one with what looks like a grain of something
>  > under the wrappings.  I'll bet that might be the cause of the recent
>  > failure.  Probably some contamination got into the winder and started
>  > causing problems that CDE didn't know about.  But whatever it is, it's a
>  > sand sized dark lump of something.
>  >
>  > Mark, you may want to check your MMC, as these might be of the same batch
>  > as the failure.
>  >
>  > Terry, do you want a look at it?  Please get me a mailing address so I can
>  > get it to you.
>  >
>  > David E Weiss
>  >
>  >
>