[Arran]

Mike, Richard:
When I opened this thread I thought maybe this was a debate over repairing or restoring a tube radio, but even these are stereo receivers from the 1970s, my opinion is the same. These receivers are approaching 50 years old, if not older, when I got my first tube radio in 1984 it was an AC/DC set of 1947 vintage, it was only 37-38 years old. Later, in the mod 1990s I tried a repair as you go experiment on an early 50s Stromberg Carlson, it played fine for about a year, then I had to pull the chassis again, replaced another paper cap, it lasted another 6 months before I had to pull it again, and then I changed all the paper caps, and I never had to deal with it again.
From what I have heard the S.S stuff is not quite the same, some electrolytics hold up, whilst others are dead on arrival, but I also heard the same about the paper caps in the RCA AC sets of the late 1927s, that didn't stop one in a Radiola 44 I have from shorting out. I don't like pulling a set apart multiple times to fix a future fault, age makes parts fail, if I intend to use a device regularly, I am going to overhaul it.
Regards
Arran