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Your brownish disk ceramic caps are probably OK, I would leave them alone, as you say reception is good and those are mostly in the RF sections, it would appear. I would stick to replacing the electrolytic and paper caps. Very good advice earlier in the post about changing one or two caps and then trying the radio before changing any more. What one guy does when changing caps is to put clip leads on the two terminals where a cap is connected for identification purposes before taking the cap out. Then he knows for sure where to install the new one. Also earlier in this thread was a comment about the output tubes drawing more current as they warmed up and giving distortion: beat me to it! True of any output tubes whatever the tube number. Definitely check. This ought to be a great radio when done. Yes, it's daunting for a first set, but do it one part at a time and triple check everything as you go and you'll be fine.
Reece
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