Re: CD 942 Possible Flaw Found

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Original poster: Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-twfpowerelectronics-dot-com>

I used the fancy $10,000 microscope camera in the lab at work ;-))  It will 
soon have one of those 6 Mega pixel digital cameras on it too instead of 
the high res video camera for better pictures still.  then it will be a 
$13000 camera ;-))

Cheers,

         Terry

At 08:26 PM 3/17/2004, you wrote:
>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
>>  >
>>  >