In Reply to: RE: The fallacy of "reforming" capacitors posted by Sherwood Forest on December 21, 2015 at 15:57:27:
Electrolytic caps. employ a thin layer of aluminum oxide as the dielectric. That layer has to be thick enough to withstand applied DC voltage. Forming, by slowly ramping voltage up, thickens the layer.
As you showed, if the caustic, conductive, paste has dried out, NOTHING will help.
Eli D.
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