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Originally Posted by Chimes
You might as well go ahead an replace the electrolytics as you will want to do that eventually anyway. Reforming electrolytics is a crap shoot and I have never had any luck doing so. Even if they appear to reform, they will fail fairly soon. New caps are not expensive and no need to take a chance on old ones.
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That's always been my way of thinking. I've seen old (and not so old) electrolytics that would work fine one minute and not work (and sometimes blow up) the next minute. Even in failed equipment that's only a few years old, bad electrolytic caps are real high on the culprit list.