TU56 motor capacitors

[vrs]

From: <djg at pdp8.net>
> Mine are shot and I was looking for replacements.  I found this site
> part DAL-2EJ100 that looks like a acceptable replacement but min buy of
> 50 at $4 each = $200
> http://www.capacitorindustries.com/excessinv.htm
> It looks like the existing ones are 2" by 4 1/8", these are 2" by 4.92"
> which seems like they will fit ok.
> 
> Is anybody else looking for capacitors who would like to split an order?
> If so email me and I will buy them and split across all the interested
> people.
> 
> Know of any other good source?

This came up a while back, and there was a fairly extensive discussion 
of the differences between "motor run" and "motor start", the limitations 
of electrolytics in this application, etc.

After that discussion I switched mine to one of these:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7568583109

though I'm not entirely satisfied with how I have it mounted, yet.

    Vince