[sdiy] identifying old capacitors

[Brett Maddaford]

Hi All
 
I picked up a haul of electronic components and have  whole pile of
capacitors that look kinda strange....well to me anyway ;) they have no
written info just colored stripes like resistors except the bands of
color are solid against each other (unlike bands on resistors) they are
anything form a retangular block in shape to ones that look like a match
head and seem to have been dipped in whatever they are coated in if that
makes sense. basically i just want to know how to check their
values...is there a color chart like for resistors?
 
sorry for what may be a newbie question
 
Brett
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