Re: cornell or cornel? : )))

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Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Original poster: "Gerry  Reynolds" <gerryreynolds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Dmitry,

I guess I agree with Terry.  The problem seems to be with the outer 
tape only that really serves no function other than a label.  The 
real question, I thinking, is what caused the tape to come loose 
since I too have never seen a CDE cap that way.  My CDE caps look as 
good as your Russian caps do. If the shipment really did get 
subjected to -40 C, this might be a concern since many comercial 
components have a -55 to 150 C storage temp rating. The CDE data 
sheet seems to indicate a -55 to 105 C operating temp range so you 
are probably OK.  You might take one of the worst looking caps and 
peel off the outer tape and see if this is the only thing that looks 
questionable.  If you got them directly from CDE, you might email 
them with a picture and get their opinion.  Are they all that way or 
just a small fraction of them???

Good luck,
Gerry R"

   I have a large stock of CDE mylar bypass capacitors purchased in 
the 1960's and used for wave filters.  (The Q is plenty good enough 
at frequencies of a few kHz.)  They have paper stickers indicating 
the value and a lot of those have come loose over the years.  I 
usually mark the value on them with a fine-point "Sharpie" pen "just 
in case".
They're sorted by value and when I need to make a filter I select the 
parallel combination which gives me the odd values I usually need.

Ed