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Old 04-20-2012, 05:02 PM
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Good job!

It has become so common for recent electronic devices to fail and be discarded due to bad, bulging-top capacitors, that in an alternate world they are the 21st-century equivalent of failing vacuum tubes. Reasonably-handy ordinary home tinkerers could probably fix 50% or more of their broken devices this way today, but this mentality just does not exist in society commonly anymore.

Imagine if TVs and radios had far more screws in their backs in the 1940s-70s, and no local stores had had tubes and testers available. Would lots of TV sets have been put at the curb for needing a 6GH8 or 5U4G?
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