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I had an RCA 8T241 do that a couple years ago, but my B+ was fine and continued to rise normally and the set worked great. So your B+ not coming up means my POP! and your POP! are probably not the same. It was a very sharp POP! and a wisp of smoke, and a bright flash from under the chassis. I never figured out what did it, and it did it again several startups later! No burnt components, no cockroaches (seen them cause POP!-FLASH before)...
So take a very close look, not only for exploded caps, but cracked apart resistors, or even a component lead that arced to the chassis or another component lead. That happens to the best of us when recapping a set. It will cause a flash-pop, and could then be a short if the lead welds itsself to whatever it touched.
Charles
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