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Originally Posted by Electronic M
Second is a bumbel bee type which is a paper capacitor molded in plastic these are as bad or worse than all paper types and should be replaced
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Even 20 years ago these caps were very bad. Sometimes they acted like little batteries, producing about a volt from end to end, not what you'd want in a cap...
The color bands read like a resistor, it says the number of picofarads.