"Terry F." wrote in message
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Instead of throwing away old circuit boards which are beyond repair, I
find myself removing the caps etc for possible future re-use (just
using a soldering iron, as wick is quite expensive). Is anyone else
here this sad? :-)



I keep a box of scrapped boards around to pull parts when I need to try to
get something going NOW, and sometimes that includes caps, but given the
choice I always use new lytics and I always check used ones with an ESR
meter before reusing.