I cut open the offending electrolytic on my
machinist's lathe and removed the insides. Still "wet" but
open in both cases. Then soldered in an equivalent replacement axial
unit from da-shak.com and sealed the can back on
That's a perfectly respectable repair technique! I did all the
electrolytics in a piece of German WWII cipher equipment that way. Cut
around the seal with a Dremel and used a modern component inside, then
sealed the cap back on with epoxy. This was the only one of these machines
left complete in the world, so I was *very* pernickety about getting the
appearance historically correct.
Craig
