WG k7191 c38 cap melted

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other than the cap is worn out, would anything else cause this?

the chassis was rebuilt by chris25810 a couple years ago and was working great...today the lovely smell of burning insulation permeated my house...the monitor was on and there was a faint vertical line still there...smoke was pouring out of the chassis, then on inspection i could see that one side of c38 had goo that ran out of it...the fuse never blew and i haven't checked anything else out yet

think c38 just went bad and needs replaced or did something else cause it to fry?
 
when my flyback went out, it took everything with it, including half the traces to the C36, and the C38 looked like a shriveled mess.

if changing out your C38 doesn't get it, you might be looking at something deeper, but if it was just rebuilt properly in the last couple years, it might very well just be C38. C38 controls the width.
 
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