[Ron Ramirez]

Yesterday, I pulled the chassis out of the cabinet.

   

Turning it upside down, I wasn't sure what I would find...

   

As you can see, most - not all, but most - of the original paper capacitors have been replaced with new yellow film caps. The quality of the cap replacements is not quite to my liking, but I may leave most if not all of them alone.

There are some issues I will need to address, though:

   

I don't care for how the original twist-lock electrolytic was replaced by individual electrolytics with some masking tape wrapped around them. These will be replaced with another twist-lock unit. I considered buying a new twist-lock from AES, but have since decided to open up a twist-lock from the junkpile and restuff it with new Nichicon electrolytics.

   

Left side of chassis, looking at the bottom: No less than seven original paper capacitors which were not replaced. I will replace them. Since the vast majority of capacitors were replaced with yellow film and the originals discarded, I will not restuff these either.

   

Back of chassis under speaker terminals: Two more original paper capacitors. One of those, .05 uF, is connected between one side of the line and ground! It will be replaced with a new .01 uF X-Y safety cap. The other will be replaced with a new .047 uF yellow film capacitor.

Additionally, I noticed that R54, which is supposed to be 4K at 5 watts, was replaced with a 10K, 10W unit. That will reduce the B+ to the screen grids of the front end tubes as well as the first and second IF amplifiers. It will be replaced with a new 4K, 10 watt resistor which I just happen to have on hand.

Also, it appears to have its original rubber power cord which is cracking. It will receive a brand new black power cord.

All of the tubes are good save two: the 6K8GT which is marginal, and the 0C3 voltage regulator tube which my tester won't test. Its base is very loose so I'll just replace it anyway.