[noiseguy]

In terms of starting the troubleshooting on this radio, does it make sense to first disconnect the shorted caps from ground and fire it up to check the power supply, or should I replace all the caps first and then try firing it up? I assume I should leave out all the tubes until I'm done going through the bottom side.

I've already found one shorted cap, one open choke, and something odd going on with the BC resistor (it looks like the two sides of the wound resistor are supposed to be electrically connected in the center; they are not.) Unit is supposedly dead; I wasn't planning to try bringing it back up until I'd gone through it first.