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Thanks Bob

Final update for the night. I plugged the rest of the tubes in, and after a while got all the way up to 120 volts. Nothing so far but a fairly loud hum and occaisional pops, thunder and something that might be static. Touching the grids of the 75 and latter 44 result in a buzz, touching the 36 gives just a pop, and toucing the rf 44 gives a quiet pop. Tuning doesn't result in much of a change. I've reversed the connections on the oscillator tickler coil, which did nothing. The volume control adjusts the level of the noise. It also seems like there is a high pitched whine

Any ideas? I'm thinking the 36 isn't oscillating, since only pops get through the rf chain. I have one spare 44 I'll try in the front end tomorrow.

As far as alignment and testing, all I have is an oscilliscope. No function generators or counters. I'm going to probe around the IF section I guess and see if anything is being generated.