"Commander Kinsey" wrote in message
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On Sun, 09 Feb 2020 21:15:21 -0000, Rod Speed
wrote:
Commander Kinsey wrote
What's wrong with crossposting? There are 4 groups where people might
know the answer. Yes, I could post 4 times seperately, but then people
wouldn't see each other's replies.
And those who read more than one group wouldn't
have the post auto marked as read in the other groups.
Indeed. If crossposting was somehow wrong, then it wouldn't be allowed by
all the newsreaders and newsservers out there.
Not all news servers do, at least one of them,
forget which, doesn't allow cross posting.
Stupid imo but it is that stupid.
I've checked both Ebay and Alibaba (where you can buy huge bulk
quantities), and the prices are no different.
I've never seen the tantalum ones break.
He didn't say break, he said go leaky.
I assume leaky also means not functioning within the desired parameters.
No, with his comment about damaging other
stuff, he meant leaking with stuff coming out.
Ii did happen a bit.
I've never seen it in my 44 years.
Likely because of the sort of gear you
ever got to deal with. They were never
all that common in domestic stuff.
But then you are considerably older than me.
Yep, and have dealt with a much wider
variety of electronic equipment.
On Sun, 09 Feb 2020 16:06:41 -0000, Brian Gaff (Sofa 2)
wrote:
Stop excessive crosposting...
I suppose cos they can get them el chepo. I also have found toward the
end
of the 90s, those little tantalum caps that look like blobs of resin
coloured blue tend to go leaky and damage the rest of the circuit.
Nothing is supposed to last any more.
Brian