Is this capacitor burned?

[jonboper]

http://imgur.com/a/3NU5f

I touched it with the iron while soldering the pots to the board. Is this burned and unusable?

[vigilante397]

Should be fine, I've done way worse and have them still work

[jonboper]

Haha, thanks!

[R.G.]

This reminds me of an old, old happening. Back when I was an engineerling, engineering departments still had department secretaries and no one but secretaries knew how to type. Our department secretary was on good terms with all of us and a respected member of the department.

But we all cracked up the day she walked into the lab and asked "hey guys, what color is a capacitor?"

Of course, the appearance of a cap can only be the crudest indicator of its internal condition. Burned to shreds, easy. A litttle hot looking? Hard to say.

Since we don't directly sense electrical matters, we're forced to use -meters- to measure whether the internal very very high resistance has broken down, or if it's charge storage has been um, impeded.

[EBK]

It probably just became more "vintage" sounding.   

[jonboper]

Point taken RG, I don't have any experience with these things - lots of learning opportunities.