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that large tant is the -5V filter capacitor, and it doesnt have anything to do with anything except communications, etc... 

But the act of heating up the Hybrid to change it, alters the capacitance of the substrate because of the cap goo that gets onto it. THAT usually fixes it. albeit temporarily. 

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