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Originally Posted by marty59
Just wondering, are the pins tight and clean? And worse case, could the socket itself somehow be removed from the cup? Are there some unused pins that could be removed?
Phil Nelson addressed a ticking rectifier issue on his Philco Miss America...
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I kinda wonder if I ruined it.
See this chassis was covered in cigarette tar and the entire rectifier area was black.I cleaned everything in pure ammonia to cut the tar it was so thick.See how clean it is now? just wondering if the ammonia chemically affected this cup or took off some kind of coating that prevented the ticking.It didn't do this when I first got it working but I had a drive problem(bad drive trimmer) and a miswired screen grid cap(going nowhere on the ground end) so my hv was a little low.as soon as I fixed the screen cap ground and no longer had glowing plate problems so I could finally let it run for long periods my hv came up enough to get the ticking(started right away) and it's been there ever since.It didn't do it before the recap or cleaning either but that trimmer was bad so hv was lower.