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PCB damage by ham handed techs seems to account for most of the problems I have seen as well, but I have run into some that had a lot of crysalized looking solder and a few with really bad tube sockets (literally crumbling). I prefer to work on unmolested pcb, but if its been hacked then not so much. I ran in to one where jumper was used to aid in a tube ground, it was soldered to the center post of a tube socket on the pcb, the other side still had the alligator clip, attached to the metal chassis. I love my 26DC56 zen SS set, its so well built. My sylvania SS seems to have a better pic but that may be just because I have not spent a lot of time messing with the zen setup.
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