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Old 5th Mar 2018, 10:50 am   #12
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Default Re: Capacitor problems

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Originally Posted by mark pirate View Post
I think the most troublesome caps are those nasty brown or black Hunts caps used widely in most electronics through the 50's.
Mark
Is that because the sets you restore are of the age when the mouldseal capacitors were the main type used?

I never found any paper capacitors that reliable, and that’s in their service life.
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