[kiwi_steve]

Murphy: 1, Steve: 0

DOH!

(But at least coffee still works)

I discovered on another power-up that there was smoke coming from the chassis underside, and a bit more investigation lead me to find one of the filament wires (first one after the transformer connected to the sockets) going black (it was originally red).  This was with all tubes removed - which made me go "hmmm"... so I started poking about.  And I stumbled across this:
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This is the socket I recycled into the chassis because someone had removed the 75 and replaced it with some octal tube and I wanted to put it back... and I was looking at how the pin clamps are riveted to the socket... and that made me think - where do those rivets go?  I'll tell you where they go... no, wait... I'll show you:
[Image: http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff222...geldsj.jpg]

DOH!

This made me think... where is the insulating layer from this?  Which made me think some more.  At this point I realised what the little tube-socket shaped piece of paxilon (or whatever it is) that I've been stepping over for the last couple of months and meaning to pick up was

[Image: http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff222...x1vikk.jpg]

Well, I feel a little stupid... here's hoping I haven't cooked the transformer too badly...