TO RECAP OR NOT TOO

[Sonar]

Do companies that build amateur trancivers use higher quality capacitors and components then Builders of 11 meter transceivers?
If a used transceiver (Yaesu Kenwood Icom) is working as it should after 20 years would it be advisable to have it recaped or, go with the old adage "if it ain't broke don't fix it"?

 

[space cowboy]

sometimes the batch matters as much as the manufacturer. good companies can have bad batches.
anything else I could add has been said repeatedly in the recap or not threads.
maybe that has been too.

 

[Road Squawker]

too many variables,... are they leaking goo out?...... bulging?

 

[Robb]

Never yet seen any caps leaking or bulging in old radios with multiple cap failures. Old caps fail from dried-out electrolyte; not because they have been over-stressed because of a poor board design,

But you are on the right track, though. I see bulging/leaking caps mostly in LCD computer monitors in the DC to DC converter boards. Mostly, they bulge. Did accidentally put on cap in backwards and it fired off of the board and across the room when I powered it up . . .lol