[terrylett]

OK I want to thank everyone for some great troubleshooting and suggestions.

Morzh enlightened me on the use of a tracer, some possible cap replacements and a temp PM speaker test and Radioroslyn gave me some direction with the temp electrolytic on 50L6 and the fact that I might be staring at an output trans issue.

I decided that the almost pristine "totem pole" speaker - coil - trans assembly was something I wanted to do so I did it.

The result seems to have helped a decent amount. You need to be close to the speaker to hear a light low pitch hum and when tuned to a station it is only evident when there are pauses in conversation and from a distance across the room you cannot hear any hum.

I think if I do anything else it would be revisiting solder points for blob drips that I can solder suck and maybe swap in a different cap or two.

At this point I think I'm satisfied (again, hey for $10.50...).

Thanks everyone.

Over and out.