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By the time you've opened the control cavity you might as well re-solder the capacitor. You could always leave several capacitors in there, with the wires wrapped in tape, to reduce the amount of unsoldering/resoldering
If you do want to experiment more easily than with soldering, just get a double piece of chocolate-block strip, solder two solid-core wires to the places in the circuit where the cap goes and use that to connect the caps.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
You could try mounting a little DIL switch under the pickguard, with several caps in place, and switch on one at a time.
One example (probably easier to just scavenge one off some old equipment if possible):
https://www.rapidonline.com/ece-edg104s-excel-4-pole-8-pin-dil-switch-80-0304
Another thing is a big rotary switch, like the old "Varitone", but that's big and permanent looking!
(I think Les Paul used varitones on some of his...)