Dirty Q. Tip wrote:

Update - It's a Hallicrafters CB-5 Mark II.

I have schematics already. I guess it's time for me to exercise that
capacitor meter I blew $200+ on. I can easily test diodes,
transistors, diodes, capacitors, and resistors, and I'm pretty good at
soldering as well, so this should hopefully this will just be a
time-consuming project.

I was wondering if perhaps someone might know what section of the CB
could be causing this (final stage, etc - it's not the main power
supply section). That might get me going the right direction... as
is, aside from removing components and checking their values, I'm
stumped.

The power supply and xmtr or AF output stage...which are equally as old
and deteriorated as any other part of the radio That said, all it
takes is a single leaky/shorted cap somewhere else in the ckt to bollox
the whole works.

There's a different philosophy in bringing an old junker back into
service as compared to troubleshooting a radio that just quit yesterday.

-BM