[Ron Ramirez]

Joe...this isn't ARF...religion is not banned here, only politics. And thanks again!

Now back to our program...

Let's take a close look at the old 84 tube socket.

[Image: http://www.philcoradio.com/images/phorum...5T_027.jpg]

From the top of the socket, if you look closely, you can just see a burned area.

[Image: http://www.philcoradio.com/images/phorum...5T_028.jpg]

And from the underneath, you can see where the socket blistered.

I did a quick autopsy of the socket after removing it from the radio by breaking it.

[Image: http://www.philcoradio.com/images/phorum...5T_029.jpg]

Above, you can clearly see where the wafer burned a nice, big carbon track from one plate to the other.

Okay...what to do? Obviously the tube socket had to be replaced, but with what?

I have a few five-pin wafer sockets, but after this I really didn't trust using wafer again for a rectifier tube in this set.

Then I remembered that I have a small stash of NOS Amphenol MIP five-pin sockets...

[Image: http://www.philcoradio.com/images/phorum...5T_030.jpg]

[Image: http://www.philcoradio.com/images/phorum...5T_031.jpg]

No, it doesn't look like the original, but this socket should be much tougher over the long run than the original wafer socket was...and I doubt that it will burn a carbon track across the plate terminals like the wafer socket did.