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Originally Posted by Phil Nelson
They can also be in black cylinders with printed values rather than stripes, etc.
If you want a cap checker, you must get one that can apply the cap's actual working voltage (i.e., don't rely on a modern handheld meter). Here's one that I use:
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THAT is the cap checker I want! I love the vintage test equipment although one has to think whether they want their repair tools to need repair. That magic tuning eye takes the cake on that one. I will probably never find one of those.
Thanks for the rundown on how well some of these caps that are a bit newer are holding out. In older sets the old wax paper is a given to get out of circuit, but there are many stories of people having fairly well working and a bit newer color sets do well with the maroons and such. Again, I saw several black, plastic coated (probably Sprague) caps with yellow values printed that I wanted to get out along with a big blue electrolytic that I think is in one of the video circuits. After seeing your results I think I will take this a little further.