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Originally Posted by Penthode
there are paper capacitors masquerading as mica look-alikes which should be changed.
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There were flat molded paper capacitors that resemble mica caps with colored dots. You can generally tell by the capacitance value whether it's paper or mica (micas usually have considerably smaller values). This article should help you tell them apart:
http://www.antiqueradio.org/recap.htm
My CTC-7 had a number of tubular paper caps, but none of the flat molded paper kind.
Phil Nelson
Phil's Old Radios
http://antiqueradio.org/index.html