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Originally Posted by josephdaniel
...this set was almost entirely recapped with brown drops in the 60's and there was one new looking orange drop and a few mica caps that looked very new. I am guessing the the local Mr.Wizard did this and just fixed the set to work... All in all I think there were about 15 wax papers left in the set if I remember right, but I am going to replace all of those brown drops too.
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Check those brown drops first before replacing - the ones in your set look like CDE or Mallory replacements, same quality as the Orange Drops of the era. WMF/DME series (CDE) and PVC (Mallory) were made in Massachusetts by Sprague through the 80's, and are not the ElMenco (EM) brown drops. CDE and Mallory have merged film lines, and CDE recently bought the Orange Drop line from SBE, so if they are CDE, Mallory, or Sprague, I'd leave them be if they check good. Get rid of the wax types for sure, but take pause before replacing the brown-drops willy-nilly-fashion and wasting money.
Cheers,