<html><head></head><body><div>OMG!!! The magic smoke escaped!!</div><div><br></div><div>I saw the flame on a video card once. Rather exciting.</div><div><br></div><div>On Wed, 2015-10-14 at 16:20 -0400, Boris Borisov wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">I was surprised that such a small capacitor can shoot 3 inches of flame with appropriate smoke <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com" target="_blank">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>You got a real, 20+ year old IBM PC XT?!?!? If it's easy, replace all and then video more tests to post the flamers on YouTube :-)</div><span class=""><div><br></div><div>On Wed, 2015-10-14 at 15:33 -0400, Boris Borisov wrote:</div></span><blockquote type="cite"><span class=""><div dir="ltr">I've got yesterday from craigslist IBM PC XT. Upon testing one of the tantalum capacitors exploded with flames :) Should I replace all of those or try just that one. Seem like should be fairly easy .<br></div>
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