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Today I spent close to a couple of hours gutting and rebuilding the 8uF rectifier filter cap.
The stuff inside is poured over with some brittle hard type tar, mixed with paper.
I broke the corkscrew I use to gut these.
So I drilled, heated and chiseled until I had maybe less than 1/2" at the bottom at which point I deemed it harmless, and then put a Solen 600V 8.2uF cap inside, stabilized and insulated it with fish paper and epoxied. This has the same type depression groove at the bottom so I used the same type cut and the same technique to get the two halves back together.
Tomorrow I will rebuild the last one, it is a 2 section one, 8uF and 10uF. I will use 10uF and 33uF respectively as this one is not critical. The one I have to gut is a 3 section type, so it is just as well as I will have more space to put two pairs of wires instead of three.

Both caps are time-period appropriate and look right. The originals were with solder lugs instead of wires but then it is only so far I will go to make a cap look exactly as the old one did. They do not say Philco anyway.