Pye P224: Advice Please.

[Joe]

Right, I've now tried it with the brand new capacitor along with the good section (or at least the section I believe to be good) from the can of my Little Maestro. This seemed to reduce the hum but not the distortion. I'll hold off buying another valve until I've tried it with two new capacitors and I'll also change C44 and C45 as if they've damaged the old one I don't want them to do likewise to the new one. With a bit of luck I may be able to borrow a valve as a mate of mine has several valve radios.

Thanks for the tip about e-Bay, Jamie. The trouble I find with getting this sort of thing mail-order is that I can never seem to get everything I want from the same place so end up getting clobbered for multiple postage charges. For instance Crawthornes do capacitors but not resistors and Savoy Hill do resistors but have stopped doing capacitors.

I'm not in a rush and ought to put it aside for a while as there's other things I should be doing, like finishing plumbing the new radiator in in my living room.

I'm certainly enjoying myself and have overcome my fear of the 'high' voltages involved. My den looked like a proper mad scientist's lab earlier:-

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Thanks for the assistance; I wouldn't even have taken it on if I hadn't known that I could shout for help.

All the best

Joe