Heres a tip. For leaded electrolytic caps I "walk" them out by heating one lead and leaning the cap to one side such that the loose lead can slide out a bit. Then I do the same for the other lead, alternating back and forth until it is fully out.
On Wednesday, June 17, 2020, Erik van der Tier <e...@vdtier.nl> wrote: > I have to open it up again, tonight to check on leaking anyway, so I’ll > look up the numbers of those caps. I really need to get myself a decent > desoldering station, it’s currently taking too much time to desolder these > buggers. > > Erik > > On 16 Jun 2020, at 13:31, Stephen Adolph <twospru...@gmail.com> wrote: > > That's interesting! > Could be that one of the caps you replaced on the +5V line is now > microphonic, or the transformer caps. > Which ones did you replace? > It would be interesting to see if you can isolate it. If you had some > alternative caps that you could try for the 3 you have changed, you could > try changing one at a time. > > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 2:59 AM Erik van der Tier <e...@vdtier.nl> wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> I’ve had to replace 3 caps on my trusty T102 as they were leaking (nasty >> as they were fairly recent replacements). The surgery seemed to have >> worked, except for increase noise. It’s the kind of noise where you can >> hear the processing of the CPU, more when its busy and it seems to have >> clear ‘structure’ to it in relation to what the T102 is doing. >> Is this a sign that the same or other caps are not ok? Does anyone have >> experience with this. I really want to get this capacitor business over >> with for once and at least a bunch of years (I’m having too much fun with >> the t102 to let it just die). >> Any thoughts on how to fix this? >> >> Cheers, >> Erik > > >
