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The "capacitor plague" is such a common problem, and there was a notorious run of bad ones with a defective electrolyte from the late 90s to mid 2000s, that there is even a site dedicated to it: badcaps.net

There is an extremely detailed article about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague




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