reforming capacitor tutorial/walkthrough

[Chuck Guzis]

On 8 Oct 2007 at 17:11, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:

> I've had a beercan-sized cap (a proper UK 500ml beercan, not yer fiddly little 
> USian 300ml ones) in a radio transmitter dating from the 1960s blow in 
> spectacular fashion.  To be fair, I suspect that a failing rectifier had 
> already administered the death blow to it.

The most dangerous, in my experience, are the old steel-jacketed, 
epoxy-sealed Sprague "Vitamin Q" caps (not large electrolytics) 
sometimes found in miltary equipment.  I've got a mark in my ceiling 
where that steel jacket embedded itself when the cap blew.

Cheers,
Chuck