[QuadList] Colortec board 12 capacitor corrosion

[C. Park Seward]

i have replaced many of those caps already. But none had leaked that badly.

Best,
Park

C. Park Seward
Cell: 818-535-2747
Home: 541-476-6657
2" Quad and 1" "C" transfers
The Transfer Lab at Video Park
Visit us: http://www.videopark.com



On Nov 11, 2012, at 1:04 PM, L.E. Odham wrote:

> 
> Yeah, so did I.
> But after 40+ years....
> Plus, I dont really know what condition the caps were in when it was powered down and retired. They may have already been started leaking by then. This would be I think about six or seven years ago.
> Sure wouldn't do no harm to check your spares just in case!
>  
> Larry Odham
>  
> www.quadtapexfer.com
>  
> 
> 
>  
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Interesting photo, Larry. I thought on the shelf that kind of damage could not happen. 
> 
> Time to check the spares!
> 
> Best,
> Park
> 
> C. Park Seward
> Cell: 818-535-2747
> Home: 541-476-6657
> 2" Quad and 1" "C" transfers
> The Transfer Lab at Video Park
> Visit us: http://www.videopark.com
> 
> 
> 
> On Nov 10, 2012, at 2:40 PM, L.E. Odham wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi all,
>  
> I had a interesting Saturday afternoon repairing board #12 from one of the 1011 colortecs here.
> A couple of the 270 uf mercury electrolytic capacitors had leaked over a period of time and the electrolyte had dissolved every bit of copper clad it came into contact with.
> It wasn't in a machine at this time, thank goodness. It had been sitting quietly on the shelf a number of years as a 'spare'???
>  
> An ugly mess indeed....
>  
> photo attached
>  
> Larry Odham
>  
> Quad Tape Transfer
> www.QUADTAPEXFER.com
>  
>  
>  
>  
> ______________________________________________
> Please trim posts to relevant info when replying.
> 
> Change subject to reflect thread direction. Thanks.
> _______________________________________________
> 
> Send QuadList list posts to QuadList at quadvideotapegroup.com
> Your subscribe, unsubscribe and digest options are here:
> http://mail.quadvideotapegroup.com/mailman/listinfo/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com
> 
> 
> ______________________________________________
> Please trim posts to relevant info when replying.
> 
> Change subject to reflect thread direction. Thanks.
> _______________________________________________
> 
> Send QuadList list posts to QuadList at quadvideotapegroup.com
> Your subscribe, unsubscribe and digest options are here:
> http://mail.quadvideotapegroup.com/mailman/listinfo/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com
> ______________________________________________
> Please trim posts to relevant info when replying.
> 
> Change subject to reflect thread direction. Thanks.
> _______________________________________________
> 
> Send QuadList list posts to QuadList at quadvideotapegroup.com
> Your subscribe, unsubscribe and digest options are here:
> http://mail.quadvideotapegroup.com/mailman/listinfo/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://quadvideotapegroup.com/pipermail/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com/attachments/20121111/cc992c83/attachment-0004.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: IMG_0185.jpg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 340545 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://quadvideotapegroup.com/pipermail/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com/attachments/20121111/cc992c83/attachment-0002.jpg>