[jcassity]

maybe you are in a rare situation where you might have received a bad "new" capacitor???

can you remember if a particular capacitor size that was installed did not match the schematic?,, meaning there was a schematic error but the actual installed cap was correct but.. you installed the size that was on the schematic?

I am an amature for old radios and know less than the rest of the people here however i am electrically savy so ..... just asking things that i think of first that have happened to me.

i see some shielded welded volume control wiring,,,, i had a rare instance where out of the blue,, the actual conductor inside that shield was arching to the shield causing similar issues. i temporary bypassed the shielded wiring and the set worked so i bypassed it.