1950s or '60s vintage Zenith TVs, Need some info

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Originally Posted by vortalexfan

OK so here's a picture of the burned up capacitor, has anyone seen a capacitor fail like this before, especially one that's only a couple years old?

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.