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Originally Posted by Captainclock
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... So I don't suspect that this capacitor is going across the AC Line, ...
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That's pin 6. You count tube pins clockwise, starting at the gap. As you mention that there is no pilot light, usually pin 6 of the rectifier tube goes directly to the power line. The other side of the powerline usually goes thru a switch (usually part of the volume control), and then to the negative side of the filter cap and rest of the set. So that cap is across the powerline. You could just remove it and the set will still work. Or replace it with a modern "X rated" cap designed for the purpose, being across the powerline.