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From experience, I've found that just because something has been recapped does not mean that it was done with new production parts. I recently re-recapped a Hammond Leslie amp where someone had recapped it with a mix of orange drops and those horrible red '50's-ear plastic cased paper capacitors. I left the orange drops; but, those red things had to go.
I had a friend who was so tight that he wouldn't invest in new production capacitors. Instead, he'd use slightly less leaky paper capacitor chassis pulls to replace capacitors that were too leaky to function properly.
Oh, and one other thing to look for is bad soldering. I've seen plenty of recapped pieces of equipment where good capacitors were used; but, the soldering was horrible.
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