Polypropylene vs polyester vs polystyrene caps? What's better?

[thermionix]

maple syrup flavored?

[Rob Strand]

"It still tastes like soap!" WTF?

Did the marketing department get it wrong.
Maybe it helps if you can't blow bubbles.

[Lew-Dawg]

Gents,

Couldn't have asked for a better batch of soldiers. Thanks for the plethora of replies.


Yes, E-bay....


As for a reply, All of my questions seemed to have been answered, specifically from AMPTRAMP and Electricdruid; Copy, paste, print and staple into the binder. I will have these facts till the day I die, thanks again. 

DUCKS_ARSE, very interesting ... Never thought about damaging a component with a rouge iron. And its nice to know about the different color types.

Vigilante397, Don't make me start another thread lol...

I'd love to make a homemade capacitor , it be a neat experience.

As, for THRILLS, they are the best! I loved them as a kid, which was great because no one else did, so I didn't have to share them at recess, and yes they taste like soap, but delicious soap....Maple Syrup, sounds racist lol 

Purple caps: The secret to the Hendrix tone 

Thanks again everyone!

Lewis

[Mark Hammer]

Never heard of Thrills gum

Me neither, judging by the French translation I'm assuming it's a Canadian thing

It may just be.  I used to buy hem as a kid, but never looked to see if they were available anywhere else.  Just did a Google image search, and could not find a pic without the French phrasing as well, and found many pics with a heading like "Truly Canadian taste".  So I suspect, Thrills may well be a domestic product.

Something you will also not find in many other places outside of Quebec is "biere d'epinette" - spruce beer.  If you can imagine a soft drink that smells and tastes like a sweetened version of Pine-Sol or Mr. Clean, that's spruce beer.  To paraphrase the late great Mitch Hedberg's anchovy joke: "I drank spruce beer once...and that is why I did not drink it a second time.".  I imagine it dates from a long time ago - pre-automobile days - and lumberjack camps, but it is commonplace enough that you can find it among the no-name flavors, along with cola, 7-up equivalents, ginger ale, et al.

Perhaps both spruce beer and Thrills were intended to toughen you up, in anticipation of nuns making you wash your mouth out with soap for cussing.  Or maybe there's a subset of people who have fetishized the taste of soap and disinfectant, because they "have a thing" for nuns.  Or both.  Meh, people.  Whaddya gonna do?

[Rob Strand]

I'd love to make a homemade capacitor , it be a neat experience.

My apologies for not contributing anything useful to the thread.

As far as making a home capacitor.  The Leyden jar was a very common method.
Go here for a cool demo, skip to 8:30.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq_9t7S3Wk8

(The first second of that clip is very worrying...)

[Lew-Dawg]

ROB STRAND, don't worry I was saving the best for last....my apologies, thought I had written your name....

Great video, thanks for the post and the pics.

MARK, Spruce beer, I have to try that, next time im in Montreal, I will pick up a bottle.

Lewis

 

[duck_arse]

[dirty, dirty nuns ....... ] ahem.

about soap - I once worked at a place that started importing "natural" body/skin products like moisturisers and shower gels, and scented soaps, like lime and orange and others I can't remember. I tasted most of them - they all smelt as labelled, but all tasted like soap. I was disappointed.

[Mark Hammer]

MARK, Spruce beer, I have to try that, next time im in Montreal, I will pick up a bottle.

Lewis

Certainly pick one up.  But if you value your sanity and taste buds, for heaven's sake, don't drink it!
On the other hand, if you are training for a Tide Pod challenge, or want a simply awful practical joke to play on someone....

Remember, this is the province that gave us Celine Dion.  Lots of wonderful gifts to the world come from Quebec (most of the world's maple syrup, for instance, Godin guitars, Fairfield pedals, and our beloved Dino/digi2t, and I'm actually a native Montrealais too), but this ain't one of them.

[PRR]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrills
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O-Pee-Chee

Ontario. Seasoned with rosewater. Which is also used to perfume soap. Company history is very complex.

[Rob Strand]

Ontario. Seasoned with rosewater. Which is also used to perfume soap. Company history is very complex.

It's used quite a lot in middle-eastern dishes and deserts.  Turkish delight is probably more widely known.

I remember reading the taste of Juicy Fruit gum was modeled on jackfruit, which is a common fruit in South-East Asia.   Give me the real fruit any day!

[Mark Hammer]

The Quebec reference was with respect to spruce beer.

But the wiki says Thrills are now made in Spain.  Spain?  What the...?

You don't have to shop at many "ethnic" supermarkets to know that rosewater is a pretty common flavouring in Asia minor and the South Asian sub-continent (Rob beat me to the punch on that one while I was typing).  Of course how something tastes depends on how strong the rosewater flavouring is and what it's mixed with.

My apologies for derailing this thread.

[PRR]

> imagine a soft drink that smells and tastes like a sweetened version of Pine-Sol or Mr. Clean

Imagine Pine/Clean UN-sweetened. That's Moxie, still sold all over Maine.
 

The French on the Thrills pack (the French version is not as "wow" as the English) must relate to changes around 1970, when Quebec factions got French added to the company's sports-cards (apparently a bigger business than the gum). So there would not be many non-French images on the Web. Someone would have to have an old box, or an old film-photo scanned.

And there must be "grades" of rosewater. Finely refined stuff for good Middle-east cooking; refinery skimmings for gum flavor. Roses can be carefully tended or total weeds.

I prefer the green caps. Dunno who makes them, but they work for me.

[marcelomd]

Yesterday I traded a pedal (Keeley C4) with a guy. Today he asked to undo the deal because, among others, "the capacitors are the wrong color, according to this gutshot from Google".

The picture from Google had yellow tantalums. My pedal had green electrolytics.

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[Rob Strand]

"the capacitors are the wrong color, according to this gutshot from Google"

Maybe they weren't to his *taste*.

And there must be "grades" of rosewater. Finely refined stuff for good Middle-east cooking; refinery skimmings for gum flavor. Roses can be carefully tended or total weeds.

I think it's what Mark hinted at.  Rosewater at level 1 might might taste normal but rosewater at level 8 might move into the soap or alien foods department.