[onlyrick]

Hello again fellows , well I powered up the set this evening after I had changed every cap and resistor in this set and two tubes , the 80 and 27 tube , I did not try and power up the set befor I changed all these , some of the caps were dead and the resistors were way off spec , two of the 500K were 950K , the set looked untouched almost like new , crossed my fingers and used my variac and brought it up slowly, it came back to life , it has great reception picking many stations , the only problem is the volume of this set on local stations , it’s way too loud even when turned down to the lowest , I have to offset the tuner even with no antenna on it at all , and when I just touch the volume control the volume goes back up , I sprayed it with dioxit , that made it smoother with no cracking noise while turning but the volume works just the same too loud on local stations so I have to off set the tuner , I know the antenna is hooked to the volume control , is this normal on this type of set and is there anything I can do to change this a bit , thanks for any help with this and all the help you fellows have given , all the very best Rick