I've taken apart my caps and removed all of the pieces, including the springs. I've cleaned the crap out of them with electronic connection cleaner, q-tips, and a home made wire brush which is basically just a piece of 10 gauge speaker wire with the end stripped off and the other end in my drill.
If I look down the hole into the cap it looks like the metal is clean enough to at least get some amount of conductivity through it, but my multi-meter does not get any reading from one side of the cap to the other. I know it's not the meter as it works fine on anything else and probes touched together gives me a solid reading. I'm getting the same lack of any reading from both caps.
What could be causing this? Can the connection in the 90 degree elbow go bad? I want to do the brass rod mod but I don't think it's gonna work if the cap alone cant conduct electricity from one side of it to the other.
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If I look down the hole into the cap it looks like the metal is clean enough to at least get some amount of conductivity through it, but my multi-meter does not get any reading from one side of the cap to the other. I know it's not the meter as it works fine on anything else and probes touched together gives me a solid reading. I'm getting the same lack of any reading from both caps.
What could be causing this? Can the connection in the 90 degree elbow go bad? I want to do the brass rod mod but I don't think it's gonna work if the cap alone cant conduct electricity from one side of it to the other.
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