Color of Leaky Electrolyic Caps?

[Mike Stein]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marvin Johnston via cctalk" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
To: "ClassicCmp" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2018 6:33 PM
Subject: Color of Leaky Electrolyic Caps?


>I was just checking out the leaky capacitors on the model 100 
> motherboard, and they are all colored black. And ditto for the HX-20. 
> The ones that are both light and dark blue look to be fine (no leakage.)
> 
> So am I just seeing an anomaly, or is this the experience of most people 
> here?

I've replaced caps on two M100s and they were indeed black.

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