Multi-Section Capacitors - "Empties"

[Peter Wieck]

This has probably been asked-and-answered before, but:

I am looking for multi-section "empties" - that would be the can and the phenolic wafer - so I can stuff them myself without the cutting-and-gutting otherwise necessary.

Anyone aware of a source?

Thanks in advance!

Peter Wieck
Melrose Park, PA

[Michael Terrell]

Post by Peter Wieck
I am looking for multi-section "empties" - that would be the can and the phenolic wafer - so I can stuff them myself without the cutting-and-gutting otherwise necessary.
Anyone aware of a source?
Thanks in advance!

Hayseed Hamfest makes replacements. Maybe they will sell you the empty cans?

https://hayseedhamfest.com/

[Peter Wieck]

Post by Michael Terrell
Hayseed Hamfest makes replacements. Maybe they will sell you the empty cans?
https://hayseedhamfest.com/

Good start - I will ask, and report back.

Thanks!

Peter Wieck
Melrose Park, PA

[Michael Terrell]

Post by Peter Wieck

Post by Michael Terrell
Hayseed Hamfest makes replacements. Maybe they will sell you the empty cans?
https://hayseedhamfest.com/

Good start - I will ask, and report back.
Thanks!

Good luck. I found some aluminum tubing that is very close to the four section, but no way so far to make the plate with the ground lugs. A local Canopy manufacturer uses it for their art show products and six inch drops go back for recycling. If I can come up with a low cost ground plate, I will offer them and the tubing. They fill several 50 gallon plastic barrels with scrap, per year.

[Peter Wieck]

Hayseed does not sell parts - they cite the raw costs for just the can and base at close to $20 retail.

Working on the source for the eBay mounting plates. No cans, but a nice 4-way base and grounding options.

Peter Wieck
Melrose Park, PA

[Michael Terrell]

Post by Peter Wieck
Hayseed does not sell parts - they cite the raw costs for just the can and base at close to $20 retail.
Working on the source for the eBay mounting plates. No cans, but a nice 4-way base and grounding options.

Have you ever used:

https://www.emachineshop.com/

[Peter Wieck]

Thank you!

But, I do keep a Unimat Lathe/mill combination - and I have sufficient tooling to do this sort of thing. Being inherently lazy, my preference is to support other cottage industries other than my own, if possible.

Next Kutztown, I will purchase a bunch of can-caps at the BIN table, typically "box for a buck" and make use of my industrial tubing cutter....

Many thanks, however!

Peter Wieck
Melrose Park, PA

[Michael Terrell]

Post by Peter Wieck
Thank you!
But, I do keep a Unimat Lathe/mill combination - and I have sufficient tooling to do this sort of thing. Being inherently lazy, my preference is to support other cottage industries other than my own, if possible.
Next Kutztown, I will purchase a bunch of can-caps at the BIN table, typically "box for a buck" and make use of my industrial tubing cutter....
Many thanks, however!

A cutoff saw with a fine blade does a better job on tubing. That's how the Canopy company gets nice, clean cuts with no scratches on the tubing.

I wonder if the Chinese capacitor companies would sell empty cans of the right size? For instance:

<https://gaoke-hardware.en.alibaba.com/product/60436078366-801718441/stamping_metal_part_of_aluminum_capacitor_housing_with_nickel_plating_type.html?spm=a2700.icbuShop.41413.37.37b833424CF9Zd>



Zero Manufacturing makes many sizes of deep drawn aluminum cans, but they aren't cheap:

https://catalog.zerocases.com/item/deep-drawn-round-cans-covers/round-deep-drawn-cans/zmc-137

[Peter Wieck]

Minimum order: 500.

Peter Wieck
Melrose Park, PA