[Coco] Dark goop on 4700UF - Electrolyte leak or glue?

[Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)]

It's glue. But in my case the 220uF was corroded:

https://twitter.com/RetroCanada76/status/207468028844187650/photo/1/large



On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Jeremy Michea <jmichea at mail.com> wrote:
> I was looking at a board of a coco 3 and noticed the big cap near the power supply which I believe is 4700UF has some dark goop at the bottom of it. Its hard and dry though as nothing came up on a qtip when I gently rubbed around it. I thought electrolyte was white and powdery but I'm not completely sure if cap leaks can manifest differently.
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> Computer works fine otherwise,
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