[Jayce]

The RCA made it through the dry run ok, but started having issues after I hauled it back home. Figure something got rattled in there somewhere or a resistor went bad. Even my late radio friend had to occasionally pull radios back apart because something would fail or somehow drift after a full restoration. Even new parts can sometimes go bad. I will admit, we did this more with Philcos than most other brands. He hated Philcos because of all the additional capacitors, capacitor blocks, and bathtubs under the chassis. He loved his Zeniths though. Actually, if nothing was majorly wrong, he could punch out a rebuild on an average Zenith for around $50 for me. If it was a Philco, looking closer at $100. He'd love my Crosley 819M. Big, roomy chassis with virtually nothing under it. Very simple looking underneath.