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Originally Posted by vortalexfan
Well I got the replacement cord in the mail the other day and I went to plug in the radio to test it out, and the radio had no hum to it whatsoever (the power supply filter cap can is of the dry electrolytic type like what's in my 1931 Westinghouse, which is still working with its original filter caps in place) but for some reason there was no stations coming in on the radio, nothing on the AM or FM Band and I tested all 6 tubes in this radio and they all tested like brand new, so I'm not sure what's going on with this radio.
Any Ideas as to what could be wrong with this radio?
Below are some pictures of the unit as resquested.
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Check B+. If it is low change rectifier, if it is still low after that your lytics are bad. I've worked on easily 200 radios and can tell you that 1 or 2 surviving caps of a type or make is FAR from a confirmation of reliability of parts of the class.
If your B+ is normal and you have no reception inject audio at the grid of the first audio amp stage and see if you get anything at the speaker. If you get reasonably strong audio the problem is in the band switch, RF, converter, IF or detector stages, if you get no audio go over the audio stages. Divide and conquer.