A heat gun or hair dryer will quickly fix a wet one if I need the light. I've never had to replace caps on the circuit before, but cap failure is common, even on high-end hardware. A Taiwanese firm stole what they thought was an advanced electrolyte formula, when in fact it was "experimental" A lot of computers were recalled because of power supply failures when those caps failed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague