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"scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us" wrote:

2) Really old devices (mostly running on vacuum tubes instead of
solid-state
devices) that used wax- or plastic-covered paper capacitors in which
failure of the wax covering would cause the paper dielectric to
absorb
moisture, altering its properties.

About a year later... Learned something interesting today..

Leon
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On 2024-09-04, Michael J Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:

D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> wrote:

phigan wrote:

Are there some known people or places that one can send Apple2 and
classic Macintosh units to for re-capping?

The combination of these ingredients has led to an almost superstitious tendency to ???replace ???em all???. This is almost never necessary, and often
results in needless damage.

Unfortunately, the Mac LCIII that I would like to get working again most definitely has capacitor issues as you can visibly see leakage around
several of them on the board. Unfortunately I don't know if there are
any further issues yet.

The other unit that I would like to get working is a IIgs. Right now
when powered on it only shows thick horizontal black and white bars on
the screen. I'm thinking it's most likely some of the onboard RAM that
is the culprit (ROM3), but there may also be a sign of a leaked cap or
two in that one as well.
Unfortunately, the Mac LCIII that I would like to get working again most definitely has capacitor issues as you can visibly see leakage around
several of them on the board. Unfortunately I don't know if there are
any further issues yet.

Perhaps I should have said "for fixing" rather than "for re-capping". ;)
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phigan <wwiv@bbs.penisys.online> wrote:

The other unit that I would like to get working is a IIgs. Right now
when powered on it only shows thick horizontal black and white bars on
the screen. I'm thinking it's most likely some of the onboard RAM that
is the culprit (ROM3), but there may also be a sign of a leaked cap or
two in that one as well.

Did you mean vertical columns of white and black?
This is usually a sign that the CPU has not kicked in. Has this machine had
an accelerator in the past? Perhaps the cpu socket is not making good
contact with the cpu.
I have not heard of many people having issues with the IIgs capacitors.
They are not surface mounted and therefore avoided the bad caps plague.
Regards
Andrew



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