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Originally Posted by Electronic M
Grab a schematic and a cap tester and see what that cap does and how it tests (we can't tell you exactly what is going on without that info). Odds are it is used for some menial filtering task that is non-essential...It probably shorted, drew enough current to vent and internally burn open one of the leads, and now sits there doing nothing since one of the leads is cut internally. I'd change that cap and any others like it...Bumblebee caps are nothing but trouble.
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That's the thing I wasn't able to find a schematic for it so I guess I'm out of luck...
Also what's rather odd is that the cap that vented was the only as you call it "bumblebee cap" in the radio the only other cap in the radio besides the filter caps is a standard paper and wax capacitor made by Sprague, and it seems to be in pretty decent shape yet physically.