On Sunday, December 3, 2017 at 8:01:47 AM UTC-5, Foxs Mercantile wrote:
On 12/3/2017 6:54 AM, Cursitor Doom wrote:
I've had this great old classic radio for the best part of 40 years

Dried out aluminum electrolytic capacitors.

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Jeff-1.0
wa6fwi
http://www.foxsmercantile.com

What he wrote - AND BEFORE screwing around with slugs filters and/or any other 'adjustables" in the radio - unless you really do want to split a slug, break something and utterly destroy it. Either the caps are bad, or they are bad after 40 years, or they are bad out of sheer cussedness. And as there are no other variables that would explain the increasing deafness of the radio, start with the obvious (and necessary) before risking anything else.

Peter Wieck
Melrose Park, PA