Roman Black wrote:
>I think it may be heat related. If you have two
>electro caps bulged open or exploded open,

Not open, just the rubber bulged out enough, 1mm, to put enough stres to the solder joint to by time pull the pin loose.

>that is probably the source of the "greasy" stuff.

I meant the whole cirquit board, both sides, and other parts are covered by a grease.
It is definitely not coming from the Caps.

Look petroleum based, yellowish and very like lubrication grease...

Adam Davis wrote:
>Are you sure the gasket wasn't pushed (expanded) out by the capacitor
>expanding itself?

Dissassembled one, and the inner seem clean and OK.
I can easily make a scar in the gasket with my nail!

>Sometimes it's just the electro (they have a limited life) going bad,
>but often another part goes bad and destroys the electro.

According to my capacitance meter both caps were well within spec.

/Morgan

>Morgan Olsson wrote:
>
>> The original failure reason i tink is that the cirquit board is covered with some grease, and it seems something in the grease diffuses into the gasket which then expands.
>>
>> I have also found another radial eletrolytic cap on the cirquit board hich has also pushed itself out.

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