[jcassity]

i am recalling something,,,

i got help determining my audio output transformer was bad and replaced it.

i still had no sound,,, granted this is well into the resto where i was expecting sound.

i think over at my loctal socket we finally found i had a carbon trace. I only found this by taking readings on each and every pin and paying particular attention to some of those lower voltages and the polarity of the readings showing up as neg & pos voltages.

once we found the carbon trace,,, i ordered some loctal's but headed back out to remove the socket,,, it was out in like 10 minutes.
i continued to dissect the socket cause i wanted to see for myself this mysterious carbon trace everyone was making a big deal about

sure enough the electrons had dug a ditch from a particular pin on through the phenol wafer over to another pin or chassis.

i knew i could attempt a fix so i sanded waffer down on 1000 grit then 2000 grit sand paper till the ditch was gone then put it back together.

in about an hour i had the old socket back in and got sound.

what i did is not recommended and unorthodox but doing so i knew would help me progress to having sound instead of waiting on the mail. I was looking to see if this provided the answer to no sound and it did.