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One irritating little amp - VM 557
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11 hours ago
Hello Tim,
I have a little RCA 45Y-2 that after replacing the capacitors and some other parts it worked but it also started acting up it also uses one of those Sand resistors too plus it has domino mica cap, So I am going to replace both also check for noisy resistors.

Sincerely Richard
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