"Ron in Radio Heaven" wrote in message
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I'd bet on shorted caps.
If you keep running it like this you'll
soon have a burnt up power transformer too.
New caps will be a heck of a lot easier to find
than a replacement power transformer.

Ron


Good possibility Ron. Not only that but these old rigs were designed to run
on lower line voltage and with the higher mains voltage we see today only
pushes these old rigs harder. Beefing up the components in the power supply
wouldn't hurt but because the old iron in these was designed for the lower
voltage, it doesn't hurt to run our old rigs on a variac or power supply
set up 110v etc..

BH