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But none smell as bad as Swedish Rifa caps.<div><br></div><div>That fishy smell is normally a reliable warning of dying electrolytics.</div><div><br></div><div>A few months ago I wasted half an hour looking for a bad electrolytic, only to find my colleague had had tinned mackerel for lunch and thrown the tin in the bin by my bench!</div><div><br></div><div>Steve</div><div> </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 at 20:57, Ben Stuyts <<a href="mailto:ben@stuyts.nl">ben@stuyts.nl</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">But none smell as bad as Swedish Rifa caps.<div><br></div><div>Ben</div><div><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 20 Oct 2020, at 12:01, tpuefke via Synth-diy <<a href="mailto:synth-diy@synth-diy.org" target="_blank">synth-diy@synth-diy.org</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div>let's not go there.<br></div><div>it's a pun alluding to germanium i would have guessed, which is not un-clever.<br></div><div>i can't see anything xenophobic about that and there's really no need to politicise it.<br></div><div>there's lots of good and bad things to say about China and manufacturing practices, but i don't think this is the place for that discussion either.<br></div><div><br></div><div>also, a lot of bad caps actually come from Taiwan, so i have learned. there you go.<br></div><div><br></div><div>have a good one :)<br></div><div>Tom<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><br></div><div>Sent with <a href="https://protonmail.com/" target="_blank">ProtonMail</a> Secure Email.<br></div></div><div><br></div><div>‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐<br></div><div> On Tuesday, 20. October 2020 11:36, Miles Stevens <<a href="mailto:milesstevens89@gmail.com" target="_blank">milesstevens89@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div> <br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>So in this case, 'Chineseum' means what exactly? Is it a manufacturer?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Just looking for an explaination that isn't quite xenophobic...<br></div></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 at 02:31, Jimmy Moore <<a href="mailto:jamoore84@gmail.com" target="_blank">jamoore84@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>CuriousMarc?<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/mverdiell" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/user/mverdiell</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>His channel is awesome. <br></div></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 7:59 AM drheqx <<a href="mailto:drheqx@gmail.com" target="_blank">drheqx@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Watched a video of a guy having to change every electrolytic cap in a behringer mixer because they were literally all bad in some way. Now I'm working on a samson 16 channel mixer. Upon opening it I see numerous electrolytic caps that are physically falling apart or with signs of getting ready to pop. <br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I really hope that modern synths built by certain companies are not using these substandard caps. I'm now replacing hundreds of xyz caps with Panasonic.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Mike<br></div></div><div>_______________________________________________<br></div><div> Synth-diy mailing list<br></div><div> <a href="mailto:Synth-diy@synth-diy.org" target="_blank">Synth-diy@synth-diy.org</a><br></div><div> <a href="http://synth-diy.org/mailman/listinfo/synth-diy" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://synth-diy.org/mailman/listinfo/synth-diy</a><br></div></blockquote></div><div>_______________________________________________<br></div><div> Synth-diy mailing list<br></div><div> <a href="mailto:Synth-diy@synth-diy.org" target="_blank">Synth-diy@synth-diy.org</a><br></div><div> <a href="http://synth-diy.org/mailman/listinfo/synth-diy" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://synth-diy.org/mailman/listinfo/synth-diy</a><br></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><div><br></div>_______________________________________________<br>Synth-diy mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Synth-diy@synth-diy.org" target="_blank">Synth-diy@synth-diy.org</a><br><a href="http://synth-diy.org/mailman/listinfo/synth-diy" target="_blank">http://synth-diy.org/mailman/listinfo/synth-diy</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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