(02-12-2019, 01:14 PM)jcassity Wrote: it may sound like a lot of work but..... i think i can tell by some pics that you kept a lot of original resistors.
Actually, I replaced every single resistor on the main chassis except one, and several on the tuner sub-chassis that measured out of tolerance.
I may actually be chasing my tail now. I had it running for a couple of hours while I was fiddling with the alignment (again). When I shut it off I decided to get brave and carefully touch the 15k resistor. It was on FM for quite a while so I figured it would be too hot to touch for more than a split second but it really didn't seem that hot. I'll try it again the next time I have it running but if it really isn't that hot I can't explain how it could be dropping 151v, which means it's dissipating 1.5W, and not be quite hot.
But now I have another problem [Image: http://philcoradio.com/phorum/images/icons/sad.gif] I'm not getting anything but a nasty sound through the mixer/oscillator. I need to get this thing working and leave it alone LOL. It does something different every time I work on it!
I think I'll think about that one while I remove the dial backplate and paint it. I put some tape on it so I could mark various points on the dial and when I removed some of the tape some of the paint came with it.
I experimented with several different types of paint and it looks like Rustoleum Copper comes closest to matching.
Rich