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Old 03-31-2012, 03:52 PM
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Originally Posted by David Roper View Post
Those 60ish year old lytics not shorting out and frying your power transformer is a gamble you're willing to make. I definitely discourage recommending anybody make the same gamble without making very clear what the stakes are: black smoke and loss of costly and hard to find components if you lose.
Right.

I found one shorted 'lytic in my DuMont set that killed the power transformer, but never leaked tar or anything. I doubt that it even smoked.
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