Date   : Sun, 14 Aug 2011 10:52:06 -0500
From   : jules.richardson99@... (Jules Richardson)
Subject: would like to buy a bbc master

me@... wrote:
> On 12 Aug 2011, at 15:57, Jules Richardson wrote:
> 
>> I'm not sure what can be done to avoid the "may explode at any moment" 
>> problem.
> 
> Beebs explode in a very specific way, you can pre-emptively replace the caps.

You *can*, but in my experience the number of machines I've worked on where 
they fail is definitely less than 5%, and not much higher than other types 
of fault - it just looks much more dramatic when it happens :-)