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Originally Posted by zacster
Thanks, Eric.
One more question. Do any of you replace tube sockets? I had problems with my Dynaco that new tube sockets fixed. With 25 tubes in the Dumont, that's a lot of sockets.
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Not usually. Only if a socket is found to be bad. Those cheap wafer sockets are actually pretty good. You can tighten the contacts if need be. Take out the tube, squeeze the contacts a little and reinsert the tube. Tube sockets usually didn't see all that many inserts/removal cycles and the springiness of the contacts should still be as new.
When recapping, I don't try to remove all of the old cap's leads from tube socket terminals. I just clip it off at the terminal and solder the new one atop. Terminals are fairly fragile and not designed to take the stresses of lead removal.