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Also now that you are all "restoring" sets, not repairing for someone else, you are willing to go way beyond work normally done for profit. No One Ever Re-stuffed a Can Cap like we do for Restoration. Just like how a model T restored today is often many times more reliable than when they were in service. How many of us way over rate the caps we replace, while if you needed to turn a profit you may have just got hundreds at the best price. I remember many times working on the same set, and not having to diagnose the problem, but knowing from the set before exactly what part to change for a specific symptom, and often clipped it on top of the board, and soldered the new part to the wires from the old part above the board, not having to remove the chassis from the cabinet. What you guys find now as what you think were unreliable looking repairs, you have to think, were they done 30 years ago? well, they worked pretty well then didn't they..... A really cool radio show when I was a kid use to regularly talk about his electronics hobby as a kid and talked about people selling used parts cut out of junked radios, used tubes, and looking at some of the pictures you guys have posted of fleets of vans from shops going out every day, wow you know some of those guys were not professionals..... Look at tv repair today, Techs today of all kinds are just parts changers, no real diagnostic smarts necessary, if it were not for plug in stuff, imagine how things would look. I have seen people tape in replacement parts, glue them in, WOW.