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Just a tip. The caps are working at several hundred volts. Your testers put maybe a volt or two on a cap. The tester can measure capacitance, and even ESR... at 1 or 2 volts. A cap can test fine at these polite volts and then leak like a sieve at anything over say 20 volts. Your testers will never find that, unless you have a high voltage tester. My old Eico - and teh very similar Heathkit models - LCR bridge, as well as their plain old cap testeres DID use high voltage. And they had the swell magic eye tube as a readout. It will put out up to 500v on a cap under test. I can easily see that a cap is "OK" up to some voltage and not beyond.
Modern testers can point out bad caps a lot, but they cannot tell you a cap is good. There is a difference between not being bad and being good.
Modern testers can point out bad caps a lot, but they cannot tell you a cap is good. There is a difference between not being bad and being good.
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