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Old 08-30-2022, 09:40 AM
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That is a Motorola brand cap and I don't know whether it is paper of plastic film. It is a molded plastic case.
There were some caps by Sprague that looked similar. The ones with white printing were paper, the ones with red printing were plastic film.
That was a situation that was not very common where it was hard to tell from the general look.
Those could actually be made by Sprague but branded by Motorola, that kind of thing happened many times.
If you have a capacitance leakage tester that tested using hundreds of volts it would tell if the capacitor is good.
I'm pretty sure someone else may know how they are constructed.
I have cut similar caps apart but it can be hard to tell, the paper can be extremely thin and look transparent like plastic. They also can be very tightly wound.
Also from the time the TV is from they could be either one. Sometimes the SAMS parts list states if it is paper or plastic. SAMS also lists electrolytic caps separately.
With out knowing for sure, I would not replace those unless they were suspected to cause a problem.

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