[GreenKeys] Teletype 165027 arc suppressors

[Harold Hallikainen]

>> I guess it is just old age capacitors giving up the ghost.
> Those were paper capacitors. And yeah, I always replace them
> without testing them. Because they're almost always bad.
> The first thing I did with my Lorenz Lo-15b was to shotgun
> ALL of the capacitors in the machine, and the call control unit.
>

When I was in high school, I got an old AM/SW/LW radio from my
grandfather. It was great! One day, there was a loud pop. A paper/foil
capacitor between the power line and the chassis exploded leaving a stream
of foil across the chassis.

Harold
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