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Im looking for an online store which has the .0047 cap in stock. I live in the Netherlands, so the online store has to ship to Europe.
Thanks in advance

I've found a few on the 'bay that ship worldwide but I'm not up on electronics so don't know if they're any good or not.

I believe that ALL PARTS, guitar parts has them AND they have several european distributers...UK, Italy, France, Finland, Norway ect....here's the link...

http://www.allparts.com/cmtpage.php?filename=International%20Distributors

OR, if you have a local version of Radio Shack they will have them...try a local electronics supply house...dm

You can also try Mouser. I got some Xicon polyester green ones from them for this purpose about a year ago and they sound and work great....much better than a ceramic cap. Mouser is usually pretty cheap too costwise.

Thanks David and Greg.
@David: I sent an email to the distributor in Holland. Thanks!

@Greg: Could you give me a direct link to the 0047 cap I could use in my 4003 for the vintage mod?
http://www.mouser.com/?Ne=100&handler=data.listcategory&Ntt=*0.0047*&terms=0.0047&crc=true&N=110&Ns=SField

Or you can get it from our website:

http://www.rickenbacker.com/cart.asp?viewitem=07447&category=viewitem&buffer_category=Electronics

I know, but I live in the Netherlands and Rickenbacker only ships to the US and Canada

try these guys to see if they can get them. they are in your neck of the woods.

http://www.voxhumanawebstore.nl/webstore/

Philip, try this link.

http://www.mouser.com/index.cfm?handler=displayproduct&lstdispproductid=283729&e_categoryid=497&e_pcodeid=01426

http://www.voxhumanawebstore.nl/webstore/
is the Allparts dealer in Holland. They don't have the .0047 capacitor

Greg, can i use the cap on mouser for the Push Pull mod? It says it's 100V. The cap on the Rickenbacker site is 80V..

I hope someone could help me..

Yes, a 100 V rated capacitor is way over spec'ed for the millivolts a guitar pickup outputs, so that part will be perfectly fine.

Yes Philip, that cap is complete overkill for a guitar or bass application, but it was the lowest voltage rating cap I could find that was the right type. A benefit to using a higher voltage cap is that the internal plates inside the cap are farther apart and this usually makes it sound better and have less self-noise too.

Any .0047uf cap will do as long as it's not polarised. The voltage rating is not an issue. A ceramic would probably be the cheapest(20c?). Any electronic parts supplier should have them.

In Holland a .0047uf cap is the same as a 4,7pF. That's why I couldn't find one
I'll just go to an eletronic parts supplier in my neighbourhood!

I think that would be 4700 pf, a picofarad is 1/1000,000 of a microfarad which is 1/1000,000 of a farad. You would move the decimal point over to the right 6 places.