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vinagery/acic smell...... [message #7860]

Sun, 06 November 2005 17:22

ARTIdaho
Messages: 20
Registered: May 2009

Chancellor

after running tuner? Int. amp for awhile. Don't see any leakage from components.....is this electrolyte from a capacitor?? Thanx much, Chuck

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Re: vinagery/acic smell...... [message #7861 is a reply to message #7860]

Wed, 16 November 2005 18:32

Wayne Parham
Messages: 18787
Registered: January 2001

Illuminati (33rd Degree)

Did you ever find any leakage? Sometimes my tube radios make a smell when they haven't been used in a while, but I think it's the tubes heating the dust and oils that have condensed on them. Sort of like the smell of the furnace first time you turn it on for the season.

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