tone pot cap

Posted by colin mcgrath on February 8, 2011 at 9:38pm
I have a cap with a snapped wire. It looks like the easiest thing would be to replace it. I have one sitting around I took off a sony 3 way speaker box, will this work or is there a specific type that needs to go on the pot?

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  • colin mcgrath February 10, 2011 at 9:38am
    ok i will.

    GARAGE HERMIT said:
    i'm no electronics expert so all the numbers mean nothing to me, all the tone cap's i've seen for guitar's have value's of say 0.47uF or 0.05uF, there's lot's of different value's available, so like i said, solder your weird cap on and see what it sound's like,
  • GARAGE HERMIT February 10, 2011 at 4:51am
    i'm no electronics expert so all the numbers mean nothing to me, all the tone cap's i've seen for guitar's have value's of say 0.47uF or 0.05uF, there's lot's of different value's available, so like i said, solder your weird cap on and see what it sound's like,
  • colin mcgrath February 9, 2011 at 1:52pm

    okay, I lied first the cap I have on hand is barrel shaped, grey and on it is wrote

    jun fu

    2.2aF50v

    85c

    n.p.

    so, not sure what all that really means, but I can hypothesize.

    GARAGE HERMIT said:

    think "skeesix" has the wrong end of the stick,,

     

    tone cap's come in many different value's, is there any printing on the cap you want to use, if not just solder it on and see what your tone sound's like, nothing will blow up,

  • colin mcgrath February 9, 2011 at 11:45am
    Skeesix I thought the same thing, but when looking at caps on the internet, they all looked so different. G.H. no markings but it looks very similar in size and shape. I was worried that it could hurt the pot somehow. Thanks for the info so far I will keep ya' posted.
  • GARAGE HERMIT February 9, 2011 at 8:26am

    think "skeesix" has the wrong end of the stick,,

     

    tone cap's come in many different value's, is there any printing on the cap you want to use, if not just solder it on and see what your tone sound's like, nothing will blow up,

  • Skeesix February 8, 2011 at 11:19pm
    I think any wire would work.
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