[Doug Houston]

Here's the other half of that. An electrolytic replacement from the thirties, with one of the cardboard box replacements, dangling from the bottom of the chassis. Then. possibly, it was twist-spliced on to wire leads from somewhere, and insulated with cloth friction tape.

Oh, there are still some blacksmiths, making a mess out of a radio, but there was an abundance of them in the thirties.

Oh yes, and then, there are the shoemakers who clip capacitor pigtails, and splice the pigtails of the new ones onto them. Grinds my butt.