capacitor aging claim

[Peter C. Wallace]

On Sat, 9 Oct 2010, William Donzelli wrote:

> Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 16:59:51 -0400
> From: William Donzelli <wdonzelli at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
>     <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> Subject: Re: capacitor aging claim
> 
>> Maybe its a vintage thing. I had some WW2 vintage 10 UF @ 600V VitaminQ
>> capacitors that definately contained PCBs
>
> What evidence do you have? It is a very common belief - even the
> hazmat guys assume so (and every time they have to be shown that they
> are wrong).
>
> Also, I do not think there were Vitamin Qs during World War 2.
>
> --
> Will
>

I remember draining bad capacitors when I was quite young (I abused the 600V 
capacitors by using them for strobe lights charged to 2 KV) And am pretty sure 
that the Vitamin Q ones were PCB (light green slightly sweet spelling fluid) 
But is has been many years so I could be wrong.

Peter Wallace