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Old 6th Mar 2018, 12:27 am   #14
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Default Re: Capacitor problems

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Strangely they were ok in Grundig tape recorders and radios.
That is interesting, my main exposure to the toffee Wima capacitors was in Grundig tape recorders, I had plenty failures in those.
This might just be a storage environment coincidence?

I got a 1960 telly that had been stored in a damp garage for years. The Rifas in that set were cracked like I never have seen before.
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