Replace Death Cap with Safety Cap?

[Brazen]

At the risk of being even more pedantic.......

I have visions of Jim Carrey's breathless rant from the movie "Liar, Liar", when I see the word "pedantic" used in a sentence. LOL

[soundguruman]

I read that a lot of technicians will remove the RF interference capacitor "death cap" in old amps when they install a grounded 3 wire power cord. Why not just replace the RFI capactior with an Safety Cap that is Y2 rated?

You have 2 basic schools of thought:
1. If the power is 3 wire you don't need the bypass cap to the chassis. The amp needs to always be grounded.
2. If the electricity is not grounded, you need the bypass cap to the chassis, to get the noise out.

So, since there are safety rated caps, you should probably use them instead of the original.
But personally, I have never seen an original one short out. Although it's certainly possible for sure.

I mean, ANY part in the amp could short at any time. Including preamp tubes... But they don't usually...