"Silver Surfer" wrote in message
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Took the cover off my Crosley air conditioner to find out why the compressor
motor was tripping its thermal overload a few seconds after kicking on.

The dual section running capacitor had a strange, twisty, grayish glob coming
out of its side. The stuff looked like one of those "snakes" that the kids
light on July 4th, but is was very hard and stuck tightly to the capacitor
body. Pried it off. Looked like a small hole where it came out.

I assumed that the capacitor had bought the farm and ordered a new one. Ouch!
Best price on the Internet was about $70. Is what I described typically
what's found when one of these capacitors fails?


What's the value of the capacitor?
Where do you live (City/State/Country)?

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Dave M
MasonDG44 at comcast dot net (Just substitute the appropriate characters in the
address)

Experience: What you get when you don't get what you want