My First antique tele restoration!!!1

[holmesuser01]

Originally Posted by David Roper

Those 60ish year old lytics not shorting out and frying your power transformer is a gamble you're willing to make. I definitely discourage recommending anybody make the same gamble without making very clear what the stakes are: black smoke and loss of costly and hard to find components if you lose.

Right.

I found one shorted 'lytic in my DuMont set that killed the power transformer, but never leaked tar or anything. I doubt that it even smoked.