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I can tell you that most vintage radio and audio guys generally don't bother replacing ceramic capacitors even on 70-80+ year old equipment, so my guess would b

• Gibbon1 8y ago
  Most of the time the failure mode is excessive leakage. Which often doesn't cause problems. And ceramic and tantalum capacitors tend to heal if running at more than a few volts. I found a cap on battery backed up memory array that was sucking about 50uA. Putting 5V across it 'fixed it'
• anyfoo 8y ago
  Just be sure to always, and unconditionally, replace those paper/wax ones, is what I learned.