SV: [sdiy] Orange Drop Capacitors?

[Ingo Debus]

Am 03.01.2010 um 20:05 schrieb Nils Pipenbrinck:

> And the mustard caps:
>
>     http://www.valvepower.co.uk/mustardcaps.jpg

Ack!! Some years ago I trashed many of these too. They were salvaged  
from old TV sets or radios.

But there doesn't seem to be consensus what a mustard cap really is.  
These look quite different:
http://www.tubedepot.com/sozo.html

Perhaps it's just the colour of the cap that matters? It's all about  
colouring the sound, no? Can't I just take a standard cap and paint  
it? ;-)

Oh wait, it's the material the leads are made from:
"They are not the cheaper copper clad steel which deliver only 30% of  
pure coppers conductivity."
Following that logic, SMT caps are the best. No leads at all...

Ingo