[Eliot Ness]

While I had the chassis out, I did take another look at the tone control. Even manually shorting out the junction of caps (40) and (41) (on the 41-712 schematic) had no effect on tone, so I'm thinking either (40) or (41) is open. But I decided against going any further - the radio plays very well as is, so I put it all back together and placed it back on the shelf with its Tropic brethren.

After I had it put back together, something I had noticed about one end of cap (40) kept bothering me, so I took it back to the basement workbench, took it apart again, and had another look.

You guessed it - I did not have the end of (40) that goes to the plate of the 7B5E output tube connected correctly. DUH!

Once that end of (40) was soldered to the plate of the 7B5E, the tone control began working correctly.

So now the 35A is back together again, back on the shelving unit in my home office again, and is totally complete.

I knew you wouldn't leave it on the shelf in that condition

Glad you got it taken care of.... I've enjoyed your work on the Tropics, a set I was previously unfamiliar with, thanks!