On Dec 28, 2009, at 3:29 PM, Elliott Price wrote: > I know there've been quite a few discussions on that on the LEM > lists, but I don't have any first-had experience, so I'm not sure. I > think people had just replaced all of the capacitors, since they > apparently weren't very high quality to begin with.
A few years back some Taiwanese factories started undercutting capacitor pricing, and as a result sold a crapload of the things. Unfortunately they were using a pirated recipe for the paste that goes into these capacitors. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague> <http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/22.73.html#subj9> Lots of info here <http://www.badcaps.net/> about the issues, sources of replacement caps and instructions on doing the replacements. -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
