Silver Tantalum Capacitors - problem with plastic coating

[slsmp40]

Are you actually doing these in quantity? Seems like a tiny amount of silver to make it worthwhile.

Silver? I want the tantalum. If there is silver in there it is not very much. Tantalum is a very nice profit, silver is a side product at best.

 

[anarxi]

Silver? I want the tantalum. If there is silver in there it is not very much. Tantalum is a very nice profit, silver is a side product at best.

you obviously haven't figured out what capacitors they're talking about.
there's a completely silver case
while a gram of silver is 90 cents and a gram of tantalum is 15-20.
the weight in the product is almost equal.

 

[slsmp40]

I looked at the string again and I see that it is the wet rolled ones that they are picturing. Even on older scientific instruments those have never been plentiful enough around here for the juice to be worth the squeeze as they say. I think I have had more of the block caps that are palladium rich than those tantalum electrolytics.