Just bought a Cornell Dubilier Capacitor Analyer Model BF-50

[vortalexfan]

Yes, I actually used it to get my Zenith Trans-Oceanic Radio recapped and I also used it to help recap my 1935 GE, it turns out that the capacitors in my Trans-Oceanic while they were "bumblebee" caps the majority of them were still good yet, none of them measured shorted and measured very little leakage. There was one cap that measured "shorted" (eye tube stayed open) and that was the capacitor going between the cathode of the 1L6 tube to ground (cathode bypass cap) which would explain why my radio liked to fade in and out sometimes with distant stations, seeing as the 1L6 tube is the RF Amplifier tube and if anything electrical related to that goes bonkers then your radio usually starts fading in and out.