'49 Admiral audio problem

[kbmuri]

Can anybody else see my avatar or any of the photos in this thread? Did we have a server crash?

On the TV: I can put my signal generator, thru a 100pF cap, on any grid of any tube in the tuner RF or sound IF lineup, and get loud, clear sound at the speaker at low volume-control settings. Turning the volume control up is ear-splitting. Any audio tone from 30Hz to 1000Hz, at the sound-IF takeoff, volume is maximized at the 21.25 Mhz carrier (the IF). At the antenna terminals, best volume is at the expected 65 MHz.

But dead silence from the VCR. Yes, I triple quadruple checked the VCR output on the Sony handheld, it's putting out normal audio.

Gotta box this one up and wave the white flag. Freekin thing's haunted.