[Nick3092]

Drill little holes in the insulator adjacent to each terminal and pass each wire up through and solder to the respective lug. The rivets themselves are made of aluminum, so solder does not stick.

That method worked perfect. I put 3 holes in the insulator (2 positives and the negative that goes to CT).
   

Then I zip tied the two caps together, soldered the wires on, and they fit nicely in the coupler.  Slid the wires in the new holes in the base, and here is the semi finished product.
   

Then I attached the top of the can, slid the cardboard cover with the solder lug on, and it's ready to go back in.
   

Did the same with the 3 cap can.  On this one I tried running the negative side of the cap out the seam of the can, so it would get pinched and grounded to the clamp.  But the tolerance was too tight.  So I wound up having to bring a ground wire out for this one as well.  I'll ground it to the open ground lug on the bakelite cap right above where this comes through the chassis.  I had to drill the holes on this one on the lower outer lip, since with 3 rivets in the middle, there wasn't much room.
   

Now that I've tried it, I can say restuffing cans isn't the worst thing in the world.Although depending on how much tar and how stuck the innards are, it can be a real pain.  It does make the underside of the chassis look a bit cleaner, and is almost a must on a low profile chassis like this one that doesn't have a lot of extra room to squeeze in 7 electrolytics.

I'm down to two more bakelite caps and a couple resistors in the the IF section of the chassis to replace.  Then I need to remove the back cover to get to the terminal board along the back under the interstage transformer and replace the caps/resistors back there.  After that, it's the part I've been dreading.  Pulling the RF sub chassis to replace the parts in there.

I still also need to find out why the automatic tuning dial/hub doesn't turn when tuning via the vernier drive (but the tuning cap does).  Like wise, when trying to use the automatic tuning presets, the dial moved, but the tuning capacitor doesn't move.