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It would, it most certainly would. It would also decimate my two-week beer supply

I just asked at work and they told me that piggybacking my order on the company order to save shipping charges by Mouser is no problem, so I am gonna stock up on those caps.

PS. I was wondering why I never found 16uF values on any sch of 80; your explanation seems the mostly likely one. Though I'd wonder - did the "lytics" croak this often back then, so they had to be replaced after 20 years?

I remember my childhood big toob radios, mfrd. in 50-s and being with us end of 80-s, working just fine. They used those same can caps, and, mind you, those were Russian-made, not the very best in the world, not at all.