Ancient Transmitting caps?

[Bill, KD0HG]

OK, here's the deal. I don't want a penny for several 1930s transmitting caps I found.

I inherited maintenance on an old-timey directional AM. The previous engineer is SK. He was a major packrat. Drawers of ITC cart machine parts and tape heads, for example. But he also left behind a bunch of BIG, old-time transmitting caps that predated the station.

A picture of one is below. It's dual-branded "Faradon" amd "Cornell Dublier", 500 pf at 30 KV. Note the spark gap on the side of the thing.

Looks like filled with beeswax in a Pyrex case.

I am looking for some sort of radio museum that might want the things. It's not every day that you can find a 30 KV cap these days..Even if running spark.

Suggestions welcome.

[KB2WIG]

The AWA u ze AM?


http://www.antiquewireless.org/


klc

[w3jn]

Pavek Museum of Broadcasting in Minneapolis

www.pavekmuseum.org/

[KM1H]

Id be interested in a few between 500-2000pf for a 500KHz antenna, there maybe a lot of strange things happening at the base when I go QRO.

Carl

[K2PG]

Why don't you use some of those goodies yourself? At my 160 meter station, I use ITC cart machines for repetitious announcements, such as "CQ" calls. I use some of those capacitors (although mine are not as old) in a T-network at the base of my folded unipole antenna. The unipole is physically and electrically short for my operating frequencies, so I set up a T-network in PA and a pi-network at my place in NJ.

Cornell-Dubilier used to be located in South Plainfield, NJ, not far from the town where I grew up.