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I have re-capped a couple of the Philco Seventeeners from the same era. I did not have any trouble replacing the PC board capacitors other than de-soldiering the PC board tie downs. I was able to de-soldier the tie downs without too much effort.
I used a 25 watt soldiering iron, not a high wattage soldiering gun, when replacing the caps mounted on the PC board. I think this is why I did not have trouble with traces lifting, etc. The only place that I used the gun for was to de-soldier the PC board tie downs(connected to chassis metal) and for capacitors not mounted on the PC board.
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