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Old 01-10-2022, 08:07 PM
vortalexfan vortalexfan is offline
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Originally Posted by Electronic M View Post
You probably ruined it when you salvaged it...the plastic sides and dielectric/foil roll melt easily. If you accidentally touched your iron to the side of the cap and melted it a bit you could have shorted together the 2 capacitor metalized plastic plates, or damaged the dielectric enough to make failure easier.

I've ruined a few yellow caps with my iron myself....I don't like that they can melt easily so I only use them if I'm restuff paper caps or dealing with a situation where I need extra long leads and I don't want to Western Union splice longer leads on.
Well I had replaced the burned up one with another one and for some reason the picture tube is glowing a purplish color inside the neck near the socket, and I'm not getting any picture on the screen.
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