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items: oil caps
items: Re: oil caps
items: Re: oil caps Your correct

oil caps
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description: The filter cap is not an electrolytic so why are some of the posters assigning polarity to it? Very confusing.
creator: Manualblock
date: 2005-02-26T00:16:27-00:00

Re: oil caps
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description: I'm assuming that the cap side that hooks to the choke is (+) simply because this is B+. This cap terminal is at a higher potentional than the CT terminal, which is hooked to the other side of the oiler, so it would be considered (-).....Colin
creator: colinhester
date: 2005-02-26T00:25:13-00:00

Re: oil caps Your correct
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description: It's just how you look at it, which ever side you hook to ground becoms Neg. With an oil cap it don't matter which...John
creator: Forty2wo
date: 2005-02-26T00:46:10-00:00

Re: oil caps Your correct
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description: It was just easier to type that way. Have been around electronics ling enough to know that very few caps putside the lytic's are polarized. Joe
creator: cheetah
date: 2005-02-26T00:57:44-00:00

Re: oil caps Your correct
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description: Thanks guys; appreciate the help and feedback.
creator: Manualblock
date: 2005-02-26T01:11:12-00:00