[sdiy] Restoring vintage HP voltage supply.. original electrolytic caps questionning..

[Gordonjcp]

On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 02:43:43PM -0400, Jean-Pierre Desrochers wrote:
> Since there are many 'differing thoughts' about changing all of them or not
> I'm asking you what would YOU do in my situation ?
> Some say if it's not broken don't replace anything..
> others say don't bother and replace ALL the electrolytics you see..
> 
> By the way, ALL the electrolytic caps are very good quality Sprague.
> If they are to be replaced I would use Sprague ATOM type.

As you're no doubt painfully aware, I'm very much in the "if it works don't fix it" camp :-)

Especially with good quality capacitors, if everything appears to be okay I'd leave well enough alone.  It might be worth removing and re-gunking any transistors that are on heatsinks because we really do have better thermal grease these days.

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