[mikethedruid]

Latest electronic work, I put together a parts order, and I cut open my first electrolytic, the one from the tuning section. Interesting interior. They apparently used the outer can as one plate of the condenser, had a perforated insulator within that, and had a set of folded up aluminum vanes inside that insulator connected to the center contact for the other plate, with the electrolyte solution filling the interior of the can. Mine was still full. I wonder if it was still working ? Of course, now we'll never know; but, rather than risk the transformer, I am just as glad to do the preventative work, and never know.