"ebyea" wrote in message


It's for a guitar tone control and I'd like to replace the
little 0.1mF marked 104 light dull brown about 3/8"
circular
cap with a paper in oil which I happen to have or a
hovland or
something of a bit more quality.

This sounds like a pretty typical part for this kind of
application.

Need practice soldering?

Would there be any loss of
signal using a different type of capacitor or is a cap a
cap
and all that matters is the rating and that the volate
meets
or exceeds the requirement?

If the origional cap was suitable for the application, which
it sounds like, and the cap is in a good state of repair,
then changing it is just soldering practice.