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Thanks for the info, I did hear that it is a bear to work on and since I have no experience, it might be a grizzly. I'm looking forward to it, it'll keep me out of trouble this winter.

There are some good tips on Chuck's site (Philco repair bench) about stuffing the electrolytics. Most people curse the 37-38 magnetic tuning models because they all had the sub-chassis arrangement that is a bear to service. You can replace the paper cabs that are visible but on the 38-116 there are a few more stuffed under the sub-chassis so take the time to take good notes and pictures. All the versions of the magnetic tuning models are good sounding radios, 9 tubers and up with the whopper being the 690 with 20 tubes. Also on yours is something you see time to time, where they had to round out the tube shield to get the metal tube to fit. You should be able to find a glass tube to fit that spot and find a tube shield to replace the missing one, if you use some pliers you can get the shield base back close to original looks.