[Groundhog74]

Magic Smoke...ever heard that term? Well...after running the 42-380 for a couple of hours the other day while aligning it and just listening to it...I decided, yesterday, to re string the dial and attach the home made pointer. After an hour or so of fiddling I was done and everything worked smoothly I decided to fire it up (pun intended) and set the pointer on the dial string so it lined up with the correct channels. I turned it on and while waiting for it to warm up I noticed that the 6X5G tube, the rectifier, looked like a sparkler internally for about 1 second, then the Magic Smoke escaped from the bias resistor strip under the chassis. I said many creative and colorful things similiar to shucks, darn, heck fire and so on. After that I got fed up and went in the house. Briefly looking at the schematic I'm guessing one of the filter caps shorted out. I'll add it to the list of non-working radios now that need troubleshot and repaired. Fun Fun Fun 'till your daddy takes the T-Bird away.