Best place to get odd value Tv caps

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Originally Posted by akent36

Working on a 1964 Admiral 11 inch portable just because I like Admiral stuff, it is cosmetically perfect and has a good CRT, but finding that 1000 volt caps aren't readily available even from Mouser. Where do you guys get these things without running into high minimum orders, etc?

I buy most of my caps from Mouser they're the most affordable supplier I know. Select the capacitance, the rated voltage and all voltages ABOVE the rated voltage, and you'll find something decent. I regularly get 1.6KV caps from them.

Sometimes on 40s-50s sets you need to fudge capacitance from the old numbering standard to the new...For example getting .047 instead of an old .05, getting .033, .039, .047 instead of an old .04.

The old numbering standard was 1,2,3,4,5 and power of 10 multiples/fractions of it.
The New numbering standard is 1, 2.2, 3.3, 4.7 " ".
The old standard is almost completely out of production and expensive so always translate to the new standard.