[Pepperoni]

I performed a complete restoration on this set about 4 years ago. All components are that old. It's been working great until recently.

I removed all the tubes and they all test good. I powered the set up with no tubes in it and all the transformer output voltages look good. I see no fried components. The person said they saw a little smoke coming from the power transformer and the radio just had a hum to it that the volume control had no affect on.

That's all I've done today after a 6 hour drive and there's more testing to be done of course.

I'm wondering if anyone has had a transformer that acted like this. The transformer makes no audible noise but placing my hand on it, it feels like a vibration coming from it. It doesn't get warm but again, it's under no load at this time. The humming from the speaker may tell me a filter cap has gone bad on me but I don't recall a transformer having this vibration.

Any preliminary ideas would be appreciated. I'll be doing more testing in the morning.

Thanks,
Perreroni (Johnny)