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Old 10th May 2011, 5:52 pm   #19
twocvbloke
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Default Re: Beware!

I think in my case, the capacitor was old, and the vacuum itself was hauled out of a skip, I just stripped, cleaned and rebuilt the thing, never thought to replace the capacitor cos it looked fine when I pulled it all out...

If anyone does contact Rifa, feel free to include the picture of my blown one, I'm too lazy to contact the manufacturer (especially as it looked old, and probably out of any kind of warranty and was replaced last year before I sold the vac on), I wouldn't have thought they would still be manufacturing them, which does kind of make me wonder, but, it also makes me wonder why the likes of Nichicon keep piling out those cheapy leakies too, but that's another topic altogether...
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