Trevor Wilson wrote:

**If you need germanium devices, Rockby have some interesting ones in
their specials list.

** I have an AD162 in my old bits box - never used a germanium type in 30 years.

Amazing those caps were all good.

** Yeah - all ELNA brand, like I used to buy from Radio Despatch in the 70s.


I just serviced a
3 year old M-DAC. I started marking the bad electros, until I realised
it would be easier to mark the good ones. I have to replace around 60
caps! In a DAC!


** SMD ones, I bet.

Too much heat during assembly allows the juice out.


..... Phil