[Ron Ramirez]

I also installed the new parts I had ordered from Mouser in the Tropic.

First of all, I glued the FP electrolytic insulators back together as best as I could.

Then, I was able to remove the heavy paper sleeves from the FP cans. I cut the tops of the cans off the two FP electrolytics, cleaned the bottoms up, and installed new electrolytics:

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The two section electrolytic originally had a 40 uF and a 10 uF unit inside, and there was a 16 uF individual electrolytic mounted under the chassis, connected in parallel with the 40 uF section to equal 56 uF. This was done at the factory.

I could not find a 56 uF electrolytic so I bought a 68 uF instead. It should do fine as a replacement, and eliminates the outboard extra electrolytic.

Anyway, once these were installed on the repaired insulators, I wired them into the circuit, then covered them with the original heavy paper sleeves:

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Now, they look just like they did before I removed them.