>Yes! Every day. The yellow glue goes brown and becomes
>brittle and conductive. Heat and high voltages speed up
>the changes in the glue. Even worse is adding the
>electrolyte fumes from warm electro capacitors.
>Probing the glue with an ohmeter, especially when warm
>will give a reading as bad as 10 kohms per mm.
>Sometimes it is conductive underneath but the top probes
>ok. TV repairers hate the stuff.

The infamous yellow glue is either latex based or animal gelatine based.
It is supposed to oxydize easily ;-).  He meant the kind of glue you put
in a heat-glue gun I think. Aka 'hot stuff'.

Peter

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