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My new Florida toy-Maggie CG
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03-22-2014, 09:35 AM
If it used paper caps, yes. As I remember my Soviet radios, they did use paper caps in 50s and 60s. There is some chemical thing that happens to the paper that makes a cap eventually leak.
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My new Florida toy-Maggie CG - by y2kbruce - 03-19-2014, 02:53 PM
RE: My new Florida toy-Maggie CG - by y2kbruce - 03-19-2014, 04:41 PM
RE: My new Florida toy-Maggie CG - by Ron Ramirez - 03-19-2014, 05:56 PM
RE: My new Florida toy-Maggie CG - by TA Forbes - 03-20-2014, 10:30 PM
RE: My new Florida toy-Maggie CG - by y2kbruce - 03-21-2014, 04:18 PM
RE: My new Florida toy-Maggie CG - by y2kbruce - 03-21-2014, 05:33 PM
RE: My new Florida toy-Maggie CG - by Eliot Ness - 03-21-2014, 07:13 PM
RE: My new Florida toy-Maggie CG - by Mondial - 03-21-2014, 11:51 PM
RE: My new Florida toy-Maggie CG - by morzh - 03-22-2014, 09:35 AM



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