Hi vts1134,
You've done a nice job of documenting the problem with the parts list. Hopefully a few people will see that in the future before their capacitors explode.
I guess I was lucky in that I chose to temporarily wire up the new caps without restuffing them from the start. It would be much more frustrating to have to rebuild a restuffed can. In my case, it was just one cap down the drain, a moment of head scratching, and about 10 minutes with the door and windows open to air out the shop!
I don't remember this happening on my previous 621TS restoration (the one in my avatar:
http://www.antiqueradios.com/forums/...p?f=3&t=114614 ). Maybe I used all 450 VDC caps in that one (I could easily have done that if I didn't happen to have a 160 VDC cap on hand at the time).
John Q,
The only evidence of prior tampering (other than the missing tubes) was one added resistor in the horizontal oscillator, which was put in to change the range of the horizontal hold control (I took it out and it works fine; was probably done to correct a drifting cap at the time) and one capacitor that looked like it might not be original (the grey Bumblebee-looking cap in the photo above). Everything else appeared original.
This one will definitely get more tweaking. The sound IF needs attention, since the sound is weak, and may not be quite aligned with the best picture in terms of fine tuning control position. The raster width is a bit narrow and the horizontal linearity is not too good, so there may be some drifted resistors in the horizontal output stage. Controls and tuner contacts need cleaning. I'll burn this set in for many hours over the next couple of weeks, so a few more issues may pop up with usage.