These dry out or go open circuit with age and heat. Don't make em like they
used to, obviously.
Brian

--
----- -
This newsgroup posting comes to you directly from...
The Sofa of Brian Gaff...

Blind user, so no pictures please!
"Jeremy" m wrote in
message ...
replying to JimK, Jeremy wrote:
I have had several Towerstat RF receivers fail and I am writing here with
a
fix. The problem is a capacitor that becomes faulty. It is a large
yellow
capacitor labelled Tenta 0.56uF on the circuit board. I was unable to
find
this particular capacitor available online. A similar one from another
manufacturer was too large and stopped the unit fitting back together
properly. I solved it by using a 0.47uF Tenta capacitor which was
physically
small enough that it worked. The small difference in value seems not to
make
any difference to the operation.

--
for full context, visit
https://www.homeownershub.com/uk-diy...ed-590959-.htm