EFM Load; polystyrene caps availability

[Michael Lloyd]

Tom:

You message triggered something I seem to remember reading from a few years
ago, that that the cap manufacturers were stopping the building of
polystyrene caps.  Production cost and difficulty making surface mount parts
that can take soldering were what did 'em in I think. Are far as high
performance poly* types go, I suppose the preferred stuff is polypropelene
and polycarbonate. What are folks using for caps for VCOs, VCF's and
Keyboard Voltage Processing (S/H, Portamento, etc.) anyways?

Michael
mlloyd1 at enteract.com

----- Original Message -----
From: tomg <vco at mindspring.com>
To: <synth-diy at mailhost.bpa.nl>
Sent: Friday, May 21, 1999 4:44 AM
Subject: EFM Load



>
> I've also noticed that it's getting harder to get parts in my neck of the
woods. I may just be
> paranoid but the bins for poly 1000pf and 2200pf at my local surplus place
are empty....they were
> half full a week or two ago. I made a call to another local place for
lm393s...the guy said "You
> know that's funny. I haven't sold any for months and yours is the third or
forth call today."
>