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Originally Posted by radiotvnut
I suspect that blown capacitor is wired across the AC power line. It's purpose is to help filter out any interference that may be riding on the power line and it's very possible for the radio to work without it. This type of capacitor is known as a bumblebee and they were supposed to be an improvement over older style capacitors; but, they are in fact worse. I've seen lots of these used across the AC line and it's very common for them to blow apart when used in this application. For maximum safety, it should be replaced with an AC safety capacitor.
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I see, but when I looked at the area where the capacitor was wired in at, there wasn't any wires coming into that spot for the power cord the power cord just wires into one side of the power switch and the other side wires in to the power supply cap.
From what I saw when looking at the wiring of the capacitor again, one side of the capacitor is wired into the rectifier tube socket on either pin 2 or pin 6 (i'm not sure which pin it is as the sockets aren't marked and I don't know which way is which when counting a 7 pin tube socket from underneath) and the other side wires into a lone wiring pin that has nothing but bare wire running between it and some other wiring pins (which I suspect that these lone wiring pins are part of the grounding buss circuit since its a Bakelite chassis.) So I don't suspect that this capacitor is going across the AC Line, it must be part of the rectifier circuit some how but apparently not too critical of a part in the rectifier circuit...