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I started recapping and servicing all the old boom boxes, plus small AM/FM transistor radios that were rescued from my relations years ago.  It’s been fun studying all the different obsolete, but still replaceable audio chips that they used in many of them. Fortunately I found enough telescopic antennas to replace the broken ones.  New ones are expensive nowadays.  The bad foam surround speakers in a couple were replaced with 4” automotive speakers.   If you think a SSB CB has a lot of caps, try restoring an old boom box sometime.  The Sharp boom box that my mother once paid $100 for had around 70 electrolytic caps.