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   From: lee.gleason@comcast.net   
      
         Hello all. I'm restoring an old radio, and in the process of replacing   
   the assorted electrolytic caps, I came across a half melted looking wax   
   coated cylindrical cap. The only markings on it are "Micamold 420E2503. On   
   the next line, it says ".05 plus or minus 20 150". It's a tubular shape, not   
   the usual postage stamp or lozenge shape that Micamold caps usually are.   
   It's got a band on one end, so I'm guessing it's polarized - although the   
   end without the band is grounded, the opposite of what I would have guessed.   
   I'm guessing, .05MFD, 150 volts. I can't just look it up in the schematic,   
   since this this part of the radio is a circuit a previous owner added on to   
   support a Magic Eye tuning indicator tube. What do you think?   
      
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   Lee K. Gleason N5ZMR   
   Control-G Consultants   
   lee.gleason@comcast.net   
      
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