El Menco Poly Caps (Brown)

[Decko]

Hi Tagers,

Found a bunch of El Menco Caps brown in color in the box. Various values.

What do you know about these?

Danny

[Cliff Schecht]

I use the brown turds in my Fender builds when I can find them. IME they sound great in tweed amps. I've never tested one that was bad either. Great caps if you can find them; they seem to come to me as I never actively seek them out..

[ToneMerc]

Hi Tagers,

Found a bunch of El Menco Caps brown in color in the box. Various values.

What do you know about these?

Danny

Those are Arco- ElectroMotive paper/polyester caps. They have the exact same internal construction as the early pre late 70's Sprague 6PS caps. Since the impreganation processes are usally proprietary, there's a good chance that Sprague even made them. Like Cliff said they are great caps if you can find them.

TM

[David Root]

I've used them in my Gibson EH-150, they are good. I get mine from www.33audio.com in Texas. Mark is very good and a fair dealer. He also has a lot of the '70's metal film resistors that are in demand for Dumble type builds.

I didn't know they are good in tweeds, I just finished a 5E8A board using Jupiter "red Astrons" and one Vitamin Q.

[Decko]

The values I am seeing are interesting.

In general are any of these values good for builds?

These are MFD at 400 to 600 volts. There are EM, Sprague

.0012
.0015
.002
.0025
.0027
.0039
.004
.005
.006
.0075
.025
.027
.035
.039
.04
.047
.05
.056
.06
.075
.25
.33
.47

Danny

[selloutrr]

The values I am seeing are interesting.

In general are any of these values good for builds?

These are MFD at 400 to 600 volts. There are EM, Sprague

.0012
.0015
.002
.0025
.0027
.0039
.004
.005
.006
.0075
.025
.027
.035
.039
.04
.047
.05
.056
.06
.075
.25
.33
.47

Danny

Considering +/- 10%

.05
.02
.002

would all give you usuable values. I believe these where also used in early Ampeg amps... as well as the first couple Trainwrecks.

[mark enger]

My sunn model t used them i like to use then in fender type amps, there used in all ttypes of citcuits, and have used them in many other builds with great results, i dont think ive ever had a bad one, mark

[amplifiednation]

My good buddy Mike just listed a ton of these on eBay. I do not stand to gain anything from this auction...just thought you guys might be interested. They were from an organ pull, Mike usually has some cool stuff. If anyone wants his contact info let me know.

Thx,
T

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dl ... CA:US:1123

[roberto]

I've some and I really like them.
They have warm mids.

[David Root]

.001 and .01 could be useful too I think.

[roberto]

.0012 snubber - bright cap
.0025 bright cap
.005 pot bright cap
.025 coupling cap - eq mid/bass cap
.047 coupling cap - eq mid/bass cap
.05 coupling cap - eq mid/bass cap
.25 partial cathode bypass (shelving filter)