I inspected all my Roland CM MIDI gear and noticed these in one of them:
What do you guys think?
Never seen anything like that. Usually cap leaks look more crusty.
"kinda" looks like glue but really i dont know.
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Looks like glue.
90% sure that is glue. Caps "usually" leak out of the top.
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I was worried for a while...
But I guess the day will come when I have to worry about replacing them.
That is total glue.
Yeah that looks like glue to me as well.
My LAPC-I stopped playing anything out one channel and the other went really muffled. Although every electrolytic capacitor on the board looked fine, I replaced all of them (something like 18 caps all up IIRC) and it came good.
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You often see glued caps in PSUs and such but its not this type of glue. This looks very liquid. But hey whatever suits them.
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Never seen anything like that, but it does look like glue
DEFINITELY is glue.
A lot of (mostly older) PC boards use that type of glue to hold the cap in place (especially electrolytic can-styled caps, which are prone to having their soldered leads broken).
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The type of glue that may eat through tracks, as I've had it in some monitors...
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