Anyone who’s worked with older tube-based equipment will be familiar with the type of vintage electrolytic ... He replaces the capacitor with two modern ones on a multi-cap board from [W8AOR ...

Vintage electronics and capacitor replacements tend to go hand-in-hand. Why? Because electrolytic capacitors just don’t last, not the way most other components do, anyway. The metal terminal ...

In the case of the former, electrolytic fluid can seep out and wreak havoc on circuit boards and ... The mounting of the capacitor – C22 – matches the markings on the PCB.