I got the radio working. 80% of resistors, all capacitors, and 40% of wires were replaced.
I first turned it on with no tubes at all inserted and nothing smelled bad, the
motor tuning still worked. Then I inserted the 5U4G and found that the second-level
HV was too low. It turned out to be what I worried about
: I did not restuff the
electrolytics, but hid replacements. One was rather close to the fidelity switch,
and I was afraid to bend the switch contacts too much, so it shorted.
I unsoldered the offending switch lugs and redid them, leaving 1/8 inch
spacing which is fine for this voltage. This fixed that problem.
Then I removed the 5U4G and inserted all the other tubes. No heaters.
I had not used Deoxit on the plug that delivers power to the main chassis.
Then I tried running everything inserted on a dim bulb. Nothing smelled
or showed signs of a short. Setting the switch to TV or phono and touching
the input showed the audio worked.
Setting to radio and tuning around shortwave produced little (the broadcast band
coils are defubnct, that has to wait til tomorrow.) Attaching an antenna
resulted in absolutely normal shortwave reception!
chassis pictures tomorrow.