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Default What type of capacitor should I use?


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What type of capacitor would be the best match to replace the old
paper/wax caps in old tube gear?


One that I do recall, are the so called Mylar, which I think were the
first ones that were made to replace the old paper caps. I guess they
now changed that name to something "poly" also.....


Mylar is DuPont's brand name for a stretched PET plastic. P is for poly