225 Slant Six Distributor Question

When working on customer vehicles, I always replaced the condenser since that was the understanding when doing a tune-up, but on my cars, if the points were not building up a mountain on one side, I would leave that condenser in and replace the points only. A set of points that were only gray colored and not badly pitted indicated to me that the condenser was nicely matched to the coil being used. Some of my condensers were in my cars for years. Maybe I'm just cheap, but it worked for me. I now use an HEI set-up on my slant to get a hotter spark and to avoid having to work down in that cave replacing points.