[murf]

Mica caps are pretty good even at 70 years old, you should be fine leaving them in.

But if there are "buried" paper caps, they can cause some problems. Maybe you should have an expert replace them. Like I said before, your 816K is worth it. Man, they are super radios.

Did all the paper caps and electrolitics.
Will continue to replace resistors and any questionable wires while I am digging around in there.
Thanks
murf

Had a friend of mine look at it today.He does quite a bit of resto-work on old radios,and he thinks the low volume distortion is due to the speaker itself.
Will try cleaning it out with low pressure air and see if that helps.
Anybody ever clean one of these?
Otherwise,after replacing a few out of spec resistors and a few more wires,we are going to align it and see what we have.
Thanks
murf