Finally picked up an original Mac LC recently...and have a number of other older related Mac's too...several LCII's, an LC475, a IIci, and I think a IIcx...plus some newer power mac/G3's I snagged cheap from the local recycling place. :-) At any rate...I was just looking more closely at the LC, and it clearly has leaked gunk out of the capacitors...as folks here seemed to indicate was nearly guaranteed to happen. :-( So...I probably need to re-cap that one and at least some of the others sooner than later... I guess the first question would be...if they are just sitting around not being used, are the caps leaking more? Or does it pretty much only happen when the machine is powered on? Some of these I haven't powered on in years... Next question...are all of them SMD surface-mount caps? That is what it is looking like from browsing around online a bit... I've replaced a good number of capacitors in things, but have never worked with surface-mount capacitors. Any tips on how to do this successfully? I found one page that showed how to cut the top off, lift off then bottom, then snap the bottom plastic piece in two and take it out, then desolder the leads...looks like a good way to get them off anyway. Then of course the next question is how to re-install! Anyway...any tips folks could provide would be appreciated! And for cleaning up the leftover leaked stuff...how should that be cleaned? Q-tip with rubbing alcohol good enough? Or is it safe to just leave it alone? And lastly...what should I replace them with? One place was indicating that tantalum was a better option that electrolytic...any reason not to go that route? Thoughts? And where should I buy them? I've been getting electrolytics for through-hole soldering off of ebay from various sources...making sure to get good ones of course... Thanks, Wesley
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