PLEASE help! Early RCA experts check this out..

[Tubejunke]

Hi Eric, thanks for the reply! Not much life around here lately. Yes I have the heavy draw with or without the 5u4. I may have mislead about replacing the caps. I replaced all of the caps in the power supply that had the lowest resistance. All should fall into the mega-ohms right? I also use an anolog meter and nothing looked strange. All have a good "kick". C2 did not get touched as it had the best readings of all. C2 is the only multi section electrolytic with all three sections being power supply filters. HMMM??? On the others I just replaced the filter section. I have often wondered if multi section caps can have shorts between the sections. Something to think about..

Maybe there is still hope for my transformer. I have heard of old caps only acting up when a load is put on them. One would still think that a component messed up enough to cause this heavy draw would be noticable with a meter.

My old 8t-243 that I mention used to blow the 5u4 within seconds and these same procedures gave me good results. I always have THAT transformer (if compatible) but I have heard that the 8t-243 is more rare than my TC-127. I would not want to ruin that although I think it is ugly and had wished someone would take it off my hands. I always wanted a double d style round tube set that doesent weigh a ton like my old Dumont RA-109A. I GAVE that set away just to get it a good home. Simply too big and heavy.

Thanks for reading and any info or suggestions.