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It's not just the years, it's the miles, too.

A low-mileage capacitor will most-likely still be good 40-plus years old, especially from that era. Mileage will take its toll, and capacitors will "remember" how old they are after exposure to heat and operating stress for a while.

And a radio that was operated for 12 hours a day over 15 to 20 years will have a very different mileage profile after 43 years or so.

Mostly we use the cockroach method to determine that a radio needs to be re capped. When you see one cockroach boldly out in the open, you know more of them are hiding in the woodwork. When the first few electrolytic caps go south in an old radio, we assume that the dominoes have begun to fall, and it's time to replace all the electrolytics.

73

[QUOTE="nomadradio, post: 830067, member: 22"] It's not just the years, it's the miles, too. A low-mileage capacitor will most-likely still be good 40-plus years old, especially from that era. Mileage will take its toll, and capacitors will "remember" how old they are after exposure to heat and operating stress for a while. And a radio that was operated for 12 hours a day over 15 to 20 years will have a very different mileage profile after 43 years or so. Mostly we use the cockroach method to determine that a radio needs to be re capped. When you see one cockroach boldly out in the open, you know more of them are hiding in the woodwork. When the first few electrolytic caps go south in an old radio, we assume that the dominoes have begun to fall, and it's time to replace all the electrolytics. 73 [/QUOTE]

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