Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucsd!orion.oac.uci.edu!mnelson@vmsa.oac.uci.edu
From: mnelson@vmsa.oac.uci.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: ST parts source?
Message-ID: <3639@orion.cf.uci.edu>
Date: 9 Nov 89 18:55:37 GMT
Sender: news@orion.oac.uci.edu
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Lines: 20


      does anybody know of a source for hard-to-find replacement parts
(electronic components, that is...) for Atari equipment (prefereably
in the L.A. or Orange Co. areas)?  specifically, a friend of mine needs,
and is having trouble finding, just one part:  a capacitor,  2.2uF, 
50V non-polar,  radial leads,  over-sized (to dissipate heat better).  
note that this is an odd one; most non-polars  are axial, and this is 
physically like 4 times bigger than most caps of that value.  it was 
found ozzing and bubbling in an Atari ST monochrome monitor, near the high 
voltage coil.  it's obviously some sort of a high-frequency filtering cap 
(for the flyback circuit?).
      (it was really something to behold... after tracking down 2 blown
voltage regulators, we noticed this capacitor which had blown up.  it
spewed it's plastic-like guts all over neighboring components, leaving
a curtain of goop draped between them all.  quite visually apealling,
actually.  and it smelled like roasting peanuts!)
      please e-mail responses, as i dont regularly read this group
(sorry, but i'm a die-hard Amigan :-)

      thanx in advance.   -matt