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The junk looks to just be flux to me - the pads on the capacitor look perfect and aren't corroded. If the crap on that board was all electrolyte, I'd expect some corrosion on the cap pads. If you want to replace it, go ahead. It will only extend the life of the eMate, but I don't think it's the...

The eMate is from 1997 - I find it unlikely that that capacitor would have leaked. Replacing it is a good place to start, but I doubt it will end up fixing whatever issue you have.

I picked up a 180c a few months ago. It worked but really needed the screen recapped, so I did that and the picture quality looks better now (no more artifact issues), but it’s got another problem. When I first turn it on, the screen looks perfect, but it will slowly down the contrast until...

Hello everybody! I'm pretty active on the 68kMLA forums, but I've been recommended here a lot and finally joined. Seems like a great place! I got given a dead IBM 5170 PC/AT last year, and the battery unfortunately exploded and splooshed the motherboard with all of its lovely juice. I've gotten...