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Default Replacing Large Electrolytics

On Saturday, August 25, 2018 at 6:43:47 AM UTC-4, Gunther Heiko Hagen wrote:
On Sat, 25 Aug 2018 00:35:34 -0500, Fox's Mercantile wrote:

Reforming is a fool's game.


Throwing away is a fool's game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nat1YYNMW5A


I won't watch that video because I KNOW Jeff is right: reforming is a fool's game. One may get away with reforming a cap to save a couple of bucks, but I'm more concerned about the collateral damage if this reformed cap returns to its leaky state and perhaps wipes out a power transformer.