[jerryhawthorne]

Seems the posting is not generating much interest so I started thinking about it more. Could this just be a spring system to allow the speed dial lever to lift up? The station stop screws are very spring loaded which will lift the speed dial lever but perhaps this is to get it a little higher so it is assured of not dragging. Maybe I'm chasing a red herring here and the muting switch is somewhere else in the dial assembly? The schematic shows what I think is the muting switch and looks like it grounds out the center tap of the volume control. This doesn't appear to be able to do that. Is it possible that the switch is located under the back of the dial at the bottom where I can see two wires coming to what appears to be two leafs wanting to touch one another? I may have to look more closely at that. I did jumper across the two connections and no muting. May have to look at that closer. No idea what it does but if it is a muting switch, according to the schematic, one side should go to CT of the volume control and the other leg to the ground. Any experts out there?

Jerry