Because I'm not afraid to look like a rookie here, and in the hopes of teaching some one else, I'm going to tell you what I didn't do. I didn't test the tubes in this set (except the two vertical tubes, and even then I don't think the tester was good) until today. I know some of you will be thinking
, I am thinking
. My new rule is tubes will be tested before I even begin recapping. Ten tubes were shot... 10! I came home to replace the tubes in question and found two things. #1- my set uses V10 and I don't have a 6AT6. I had a 6AV6 left after replacing all of the other tubes. I'm not sure if I had a mix up at the shop when I was replacing tubes, or if a 6AV6 was in V10 in the first place. At any rate I simply left V10 out and fired the set up. #2- When I give the set more than 90volts I start to hear a sound in the high voltage cage that I don't like. The sound get worse as I cranked voltage higher. It kind of sounds like a very faint snap...snap...fsst...crackle...fsst..snap...crackl e. It could just be a different sound and I'm paranoid but it sounds like something is eating itself. I don't know how to test such a thing as I can't tell exactly where it's coming from. I'd rather not "test" by waiting until what ever it is to finish eating itself and whatever other components around it that it wants to take with it. Any thoughts on what the noise could be?
BTW the vertical is now full height.
Sorry to all of you here for wasting trouble shooting time by not completing step one.