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I'll post pic's as soon as I get some batteries for my camera and get the set back together. I tried a slow warm for about 4 hours with a 100 watt bulb. Everything was looking great. All the tube filaments bareley glowing and nothing was getting hot. Well when I applied 110V all hell broke loose. The transformer sounded a bit loud and next thing I know my 4 way recepticle circuit protector kicked out (which was good). Sounds like the typical electrolytic trouble in the power supply. I diconnected several sections in the multi section cans and checked them with an analog ohm meter. The bad part here is so far I havent found anything that looks like a short. The needle goes to zero and slowly gains high resistance which should be pretty normal.
With a bad short I would think I would find the needle decending to a low resistance or staying in one place with little or no "sweep" action. If I'm wrong please correct me. Now I did notice that one newer lookin 3 section can had a good strong hold on zero for a couple of seconds before gaining rapid resistance on all of the sections. One of the older ones did have a kind of weaker reading if that makes sense. The needle would sweep but with no hold at zero when polarity is reversed. Could that be a short?
I do remember when I attempted reviving my 8t-243 I replaced all of the power supply cans plus many others and the original problem of eating LV rectifiers after 3 seconds of operation was gone but I never found an out and out bad reading with my multimeter. I just started replacing things. Is there something I am doing wrong? I hope and pray the transformer is not the problem. I dont want to sacrifice my 8t-243 chassis for the sake of the much more handsome TC-127. It looks like you could swap the crts and have the same set. Probably not that simple.
Any idea??
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