On Tue, 1 Sep 2020, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: > This and the rest of what you describe sounds quite like the damaged > caused by electrolyte leaking from failed capacitors. This is probably > the most common cause of failure in electronics after they get to 2-3 > decades old. > > There was one particular time when this happened prematurely: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague
There was the issue with the quaternary ammonium salt system earlier on too, e.g. with Chemi-Con SXF parts and several other ones from various reputable manufacturers in early 1990s. Maciej
