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I got this beastie in the house to take a better look at it.
Made up a Solid State replacement for the 5U4 for testing purposes, one reason for this is to prevent trashing a good 5U4, another reason is you don't have to crank the voltage up so high to start.
The 5U4 won't start conducting until it hit 60 or 70 volts but the Diodes start working immediately.
Nothing dramatic happened, nothing happened at all as the set is completely dead other than the heaters, lack of B+ I suspect.
after slowly bringing it up I finally set it at 115 volts, it was drawing about 2.0 amps at that point, not too high but the thing is the amps never dropped off after a slow warm up, the filters never reformed.
One of the cans was a little warm after hitting 115 volts so I pulled the chassis back to look underneath, there are a couple more Axial Electrolytics under there that have been leaking badly, one of those was getting warm also.
So there it sits, it needs several caps just to get started, I don't want to put a whole lot of effort into it until I can find a CRT but I would like to get it fired up just to see how it looks, and more importantly, how it sounds!
Here's some pictures, the cabinet's a bit rough, solid though and not water damaged at all.
The chassis' is excellent.
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