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Hi, this is Bill Sikkens, host of User
Friendly 2.0 Saturdays here on The Answer

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with this week's Tech Wednesday
for anybody in the vintage electronics.

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We all know that these type of things
may not be terribly dependable

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as components age things where out
and is a product of time,

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some tiny components
within these devices will fail.

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there was a time period
when devices were made that they had

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a much bigger problem of this
happening than now, and it's an area

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known as the capacitor plague.

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These are small devices that contain
energy within most electronic devices.

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Pretty much everything has them,
and from the time that they were built,

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some lasts better than others and most
will eventually need to be replaced.

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in some cases, these devices can actually
damage the vintage electronics.

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They leak, they explode, they do all kinds
of other things and will generally

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make operation much more difficult,
if not possible at all.

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And at the end of the day,
it can cost a lot of money

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to repair these things
if it's even possible.

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This week on User Friendly 2.0, we're
going to talk about maintenance of vintage

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electronics, capacitor plague
and what you can do to save your devices.