[ccomer1955]

I'm guessing that the same technician who installed the Thoradson output transformer and liked to solder by placing leads next to each other and having at it with the solder gun might have installed this switch? It has an RCA jack, the switch seems to be a simple on/off kind of thing but doesn't click in place--it just rolls to its limits, shielded leads with the shielding soldered to the chassis, and it connects to the volume control through a second .003 uf 1000v cap and one of the IF transformers through a .01 uf cap.

The caps you see are mine...I replaced all of the caps, but I still need to trace all the circuits, and replace some wiring, yet.

I replaced all caps and out of range resistors, but I'm staring at this switch thinking I should take it and the extra .003 cap out of the set before I try to bring the set up on the variac.

Am I correct in thinking this is not a Philco part? Do you think I should get it out of there?

Note: Don't worry, the candohm is not in circuit...that ugly replacement is (I'm going to look around for a longer terminal).