Stripped the machine down this evening and inspected the suspect capacitor. There is a bit of brown gunge on the top of it that looks like its leaked out from under the film. There is also some noticeable burning on the side of it. The burning doesn't look to bad just some sooty looking stuff on the side of it. The transistor next to it, Q405 also has the same soot on it. There is a resistor near by R415, that looks like its got a fairly high power rating, so thats probably designed to run quite hot, which I reckon would account for the soot on the side of the cap and transistor.
Jon, when you say lift on leg of the base resistor, do you mean R15 (1.3k) on the audio board on the base of transistor Q2?
I'll try pick up a replacement cap C416 on my lunch break at work tmrw, brown gunge on the top of the existing one, probably not a good sign!
There is a Maplin near my work, hopefully they will have one.
Jon, when you say lift on leg of the base resistor, do you mean R15 (1.3k) on the audio board on the base of transistor Q2?
I'll try pick up a replacement cap C416 on my lunch break at work tmrw, brown gunge on the top of the existing one, probably not a good sign!
There is a Maplin near my work, hopefully they will have one.