This may be old news to many of you who own the old (but venerable) Tilt-A-Mite flashguns, but I thought I'd post it anyway.
I have a ton of these little buggers, but many of them were non-functional due to bad capacitors. The batteries are (remarkably) still readily available from various on line resources (specifically Radioshack.com). The Eveready 504 (NEDA 220) battery is listed on their site as Catalog #: 23-9008.
http://www.radioshack.com/product.asp?c ... id=23-9008
But I digress...
I finally got around to tinkering with some new capacitors, and found several that work very well. These are axial lead type, and very nearly fit all by themselves! They are best soldered in, and this is quite easily done. I soldered them directly in place right to the metal leads in the gun.
The Radioshack catalog number on the 1000uF cap I chose is 272-1019. It is a 35WVDC type.
http://www.radioshack.com/product.asp?c ... ite=search
This upgrade has given new life to many of my old guns. And, boy, that little red status lamp really has punch now! So far in testing, I've had no problems.
CG