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Post #23 by trag
Source ForumCaps! -- Macintosh SE/30 — #23
CategoryHardware
Post DateTue, 4 Dec 2012 - 18:37
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/caps-macintosh-se-30.26694/
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The whole point to all this effort is to get away from the good old boy, PM - word of mouth communication,
Our efforts to date have not done that. The needed capacitors are clearly listed in the Wiki. Anyone who wishes can go and order those parts for themselves at a regular supplier. For folks who aren't comfortable doing that, there's a link to my FS in Trading Post.

That's hardly a "good old boy PM, word of mouth communication".

It's a straight forward web page providing information that anyone can access. No limitation on access, as your "good old boy" reference would seem to imply. PM is totally unnecessary to any portion of the process and there's no word of mouth involved at all.

Adding links to the actual pages at the suppliers is nice, but those links change over time, and there are many workable choices available.

What is your problem, that you feel the need to run down the work done by others at great effort before you? It's great that you want to help out and contribute, but running down the efforts others have put in earlier is not helping. And suggesting that folks put radial caps on surface mount pads is just plain misguided. Radial caps provide a lever which can lift a pad quicker than any other mishap. Surface mount pads should only be populated with surface mount caps if you want the board to last.

And just so there's no confusion, I don't make money off of the capacitor selling. Oh, if one did a strict net in, net out accounting, I've probably managed to make a little more than I've spent by now. And I've donated some or all of that (uncertain since I don't know the amount) to 68kmla.

If you can come up with a perfect system which will get me out of the capacitor business, that would be swell, as the tiny return isn't what motivates me to put in the time and keep the materials around. However, in the mean time, I really don't appreciate the unwarranted criticism of our past efforts.

mp.ls