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Re: still Unreal ...

2011-07-09 by gordonjcp

--- In Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com, "Jacquot" <Jacquot.Patrice@...> wrote:
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> Second hand , no revision, no reccaping,  sold as is ...
> is it my eyes ????

"Re-capping" is a great way to wreck your gear.  Don't do it.  If it has a fault, change only the faulty parts.  Every time someone brings me something that's been "re-capped", it's because it's got a fault it didn't have to begin with.

I've written off too much nice old gear because of this obsession with failing electrolytics.  In 25 years of repairing all sorts of electronic equipment I've changed maybe half a dozen electrolytics - and hundreds of disc ceramics!

Gordon MM0YEQ

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