Help ID an odd polarized capacitor...

[eurekaiv]

Can anyone ID what sorta cap this is?  Looks like it's polarized as there's a red dot on the positive leg.  I spent about an hour searching the interwebs and didn't find anything.   

[Paul Perry (Frostwave)]

Pretty sure it isn't polarised.
Capacitors at one stage had a 'dot' code, but more than one dot. Like this: http://www.tpub.com/neets/book2/3g.htm

[eurekaiv]

Tahnks for the suggestion!

That's what I thought at first too but this red spot is dead in the middle and there are no signs of any faded paint or other indicator there were ever any other dots on it. It's even slightly curved on the "positive" end as opposed to very square on the "negative."

[Paul Perry (Frostwave)]

Who knows! you might even have an encased metal oxide diode (seen something like that in a 1950s AC voltmeter).

[MikeH]

Who knows! you might even have an encased metal oxide diode (seen something like that in a 1950s AC voltmeter).

Sounds like serious mojo

[eurekaiv]

Well, I'm sure it's a cap as it's the .01 in the tone circuit of a triangle big muff.  Just really interested as to what type it is regardless that it likely makes no disceranble difference in the sound of the pedal.  It does appear to be original too as the joint is untouched so far as I can tell.

[Paul Perry (Frostwave)]

Well if it was from a Triangle Big Muff - then I can assure you, it was carefully selected on the grounds that it was the CHEAPEST capacitor available that day!

[eurekaiv]

Haha... totally.    It's amazing really, I have parts values in mine that no schematic online references.  They really just stuffed the board with whatever as long as it was relatively close.