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I think it is supposed to be angled as you describe. Just guessing but the dial scale might have been pushed in too far by someone before you got it causing it to rub.

Ok, I'll play with clearances etc once I get the chassis finished and can try to line everything up again properly then.   Thanks for the info

The chassis has had a few capacitors replaced over time but all the bakelite blocks are there by the looks of things, so I spent a day just replacing smoothing caps and rewiring things back (mostly) where they belong.  I decided to not restuff the main caps because only one was there, and because I don't want to fully restore this (not yet anyway).  I mounted two caps on some tagstrip and bolted that to the side of the chassis through an existing hole.  Fully reversible but also fully functional.  When I get around to a full restore I'll restuff probably... maybe.

I did restuff the little can which has one 1uF and two 2uF caps in it with a 1 and two 2.2's simply for space reasons - and it gives a nice tie point for them.  The finish isn't perfect but I didn't want to cut the can under the clamp in case it slipped out of the clamp at some point in the future.  I could probably have just done away with it entirely...
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Most of the resistors were well over spec as well, so I replaced them (is it just me or are the Philco style resistors with the pointy ends almost always still bang on value? The 89B I did had a few and they were all perfect too). 

I used poly caps because thats what I have - seems to work well (any thoughts on poly over electro in this particular application?  The relevant part of the schematic is here:
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