[Jamie]

Murf, it's your radio and your choice to make - the argument over recapping all at once, or doing it one at a time and testing will never be solved. That said, I restored a Philco that had the same issues that you are having... the problem turned out to be a bakelite cap off the tone control. I hadn't restuffed it yet. Since then, my thoughts are... they got to be replaced anyway, so might as well get it done before I start troubleshooting. But like I said, it's your call and feel free to disagree with me. I respect both ways of looking at it. I just see that you are trying to buy a working chassis now... and it seems like a waste of money when you haven't even recapped this one yet. Cart before the horse kinda thing..