From: peterwieck33@gmail.com   
      
   Note, for the record: When I purchase new caps, they still get tested for ESR   
   and value prior to installation. All of them.    
      
   Now, here I am with a choice:  $20 for a high-value, high voltage electrolytic   
   cap. Or, $0 for a NOS one that, although never installed or used, has been   
   sitting in my closet, or $8 for one that has been sitting on some dealer's   
   shelf (properly    
   conditioned, of course) for the last 20 years. I do all that has been   
   suggested in this thread to bring that NOS cap up to proper behavior. Or so I   
   think.    
      
   That cap goes *POOF*, and takes some unobtanium parts with it.    
      
   What have I saved?   
      
   Peter Wieck   
   Melrose Park, PA    
      
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