Am 11.06.2009 um 13:51 schrieb Samppa Tolvanen: > Regularly used wet-electrolytics gear doesn't "DIE", it starts to hum: > "Time to re-cap" Not necessarily. I recently had to replace some about 40 years old lytics that had gone up in capacitance, some of them had become leaky too. See the thread "How do old electrolytics go bad?" in February. Ingo