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Old 25th Jul 2020, 4:10 pm   #21
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Theres space on the board for two different size caps to go in, I'll go for a 300v and il get some 275s aswel just in case the space cant accomodate. Ive found them on Farnell. Roll on payday...
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Old 25th Jul 2020, 8:29 pm   #22
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Crazy, how these ever made it to market i'll never know.
What should i be looking at replacing this with, there's NOS of them all over eBay but i dont wanna put another one of those disasters in my set
Same as with the RIFA PME types. A legacy product for people who really, really, positively want to buy it and which was never that good to begin with when it wasn't yet a legacy product. At least, WIMA only has one series and never marketed it like crazy as RIFA did and seems to have a marginally better construction quality (though I did encounter a case where there had been a small fire, but that probably could have happened with RIFA as well).
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Old 25th Jul 2020, 9:51 pm   #23
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Old 26th Jul 2020, 4:59 am   #24
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What should I be looking at replacing this with, there's NOS of them all over eBay but I don't wanna put another one of those disasters in my set.
I would not look for NOS.

Have a look at post#205 in the thread Graham has moved the RIFA posts to.

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Old 26th Jul 2020, 8:53 am   #25
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What should I be looking at replacing this with, there's NOS of them all over eBay but I don't wanna put another one of those disasters in my set.
I would not look for NOS.

Have a look at post#205 in the thread Graham has moved the RIFA posts to.

https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/...&postcount=205

Just ordered some Panasonic X2's for it, I reckon they'll hold up better than the Wima ones.
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Panasonic ones should be fine.
I have never heard of them blowing up but do make sure they are new.
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Old 26th Jul 2020, 10:49 pm   #27
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Panasonic will work fine. The red (MKP) Wima ones are fine too. Both will last virtually forever. Even the cheap yellow Chinese/Taiwanese ones will work for a while and then deteriorate silently depending on how much noise they have to suppress. It's mostly only paper caps that go out with a bang.
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That small blue capacitor may not be entirely innocent.
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Old 27th Jul 2020, 1:17 am   #29
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Those small blue capacitors don't make all that mess.
They just fail with a little black notch on the edge.
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Hi all.

New mains smoother fitted and she's back working perfect again.
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