You can still get limited ranges of axial caps (wire at each end) such as these:
https://cpc.farnell.com/vishay/2222...s-long-life-cap/dp/CA00923?st=axial capacitor
As @Vovk Z states, you can use what you show.
https://cpc.farnell.com/vishay/2222...s-long-life-cap/dp/CA00923?st=axial capacitor
As @Vovk Z states, you can use what you show.
You do need to properly lead form them - constrain it with needle nose, then bend below the constraint NOT at the seal.
And would you use unknown capacitors? Brands I recognize, sure.
And would you use unknown capacitors? Brands I recognize, sure.
@wg_ski if I'm pulling it I'm gonna repalce it anyway. This cap is from the 1970s and a known failing point due to intermittant quality control from the factory. I've been informed it and others should be replaced as a matter of course. But starting with this one so that hopefully I can get some power to the rest of the board to test further
I think all the electrolytic capacitors in that device should be replaced, it has done it all for 50+ years. Just avoid those kung-fu capacitors. Take something better, Nichicon, Panasonic, and from the cheaper Samhwa, etc. Do not take LOW ESR capacitors, they were not designed for that device. Probably the only place where LOW ESR can be is for coupling capacitors in the signal path.
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Surely not! FRAKO and ROE(derstein) were top notch German manufacturers in those days. Electrolytics of the 1970ies simply tend to fail due to the end of their - limited - lifetime.
Best regards!
I wouldn't have thought it either, Germany synonymous with top notch engineering. I was only going by what I'd read somewhere. And yeah, age definitely is the biggest factor