On 2/4/2017 12:13 PM, Michael Black wrote:

And with names like "Black Beauty" and "Orange Drop", who would question
at the time that they weren't good products?

Michael

On Sat, 4 Feb 2017 14:39:13 -0500, Nick Danger
wrote:

I know from years of personal experience that "Black Beauties" were
*notoriously* bad. However, I always thought the Orange Drops were
pretty good. Not so?

On 2/4/2017 2:49 PM, wrote:

Back in the mid 60's into the 70s, I was told the black beauties were
one of the better caps made. But after reading a lot of websites about
caps, it now appears they have proven to be bad.

I discovered that from experience. BBs were notoriously leaky, both
electrically and physically.

On the other hand, back then, and still now, it appears that the orange
drops were highly rated, as well as being some of the most costly.

I never worried about the cost -- I always figured the labor to put in a
good one or to put in junk was the same.

Except for one poster in this thread, I have never heard anything bad
about them.

Ditto and thus the reason for my original question.

One of the websites I was reading said they are one of the
brands to consider for recapping, but went on to say that there are
cheaper caps which work just as well.

Back then, I used a lot of orange drops as replacements and I never had
problems with them.

True in my case too. I also used them along with 88 mh toroidal
telephone loading coils to make Mark / Space filters for radio teletype
decoders --and the orange drops were very stable. (I know, I'm dating
myself in this day and age of software/sound card RTTY decoders). :-)