Adding electrolyte to a fake (dry) capacitor.

After discovering that the capacitors in a "vehicle performance enhancer" were fake (real caps, just dry with no electrolyte) it was suggested that I could add some electrolyte to see what happened.

I'm not sure what the official recipe is, but some early electrolytes were based on ethylene glycol and boric acid. I made some up and then dunked the capacitor in it...

Here's a link to Andreas Spiess's component tester video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Xsg8lpP75s

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