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Yeah. I fear I am beginning to sound like a drone, but if I'm going to spend a couple of hours on a chassis, I'll certainly replace all the small carbon resistors and all the caps. Guess I should learn from Ron and replace the 2 watt voltage divider resistors as well even if they are not crispy critters. Dunno what makes them go down in value, might be just initial low quality control or something else (resistance are futile?.) that hasn't surfaced in a while. Ideas?