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Default Before it's put on a slow boat from China

On 9/29/2015 8:42 PM, Phil Hobbs wrote:
On 09/29/2015 02:18 PM, John Devereux wrote:
Ralph Barone writes:

Mike Tomlinson wrote:
En el artÃ*culo , ehsjr
escribió:

Maybe very careful surgery of the old cap, stuff the
new one inside the hollowed out old one to get the
old "look"?

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http://www.anonpic.com/images/fakecapacitor1.jpg


The Rubycon 35V rated caps must be pretty good :-)


They *are* pretty good aren't they? That surprised me a bit, putting a
decent brand name inside a fake.

Hmm... perhaps the Rubycons are fake too... Is there something else
inside them too?


The Rubycon looks like it was salvaged from a discarded board.


That's what they want you to think.

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Rick