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In Reply to: Caps are definitely old & need replacing. But....... posted by Rick W on March 14, 2015 at 15:37:03:
Perhaps you shifted the internal foils when you knocked them? My guess is that with use, and with an aged or impoverished insulating medium, EMF forces may cause them to work themselves back into looser arrangements. This might cause the hum you hear.
Big J
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