[g8wayg8r]

Thanks for all of the valuable input.

I think I'll be staring at the transformer for a while until I get the nerve to make a decision. I've used shrink wrap in the past of the exposed wires with brittle, fractured insulation and it's worked well. But, its the things I can't see that have got me bothered. You know it's got to be a hostile environment inside the case of the transformer than outside in the chassis. I must give this careful consideration. I could make matters worse than the need be.

I bought one of those do it all no name meters because it autoscales and for about 15 bucks it's a deal for doing quick checks. The capacitance does float around quite a bit sometimes.

I thinks I'll get some resistors and a .010 mf cap and play a bit tomorrow.

I've also got an older Fluke that I trust when I believe I have to make an accurate measurement but it doesn't give a read out on capacitance. When I need to make a measurement and consider it as the standard, that's the meter I use. The old Hickock meter has been turned on yet. Might be interesting to get distracted looking at it's innards until my radio parts arrive. It has a capacitance setting as well but I don't want to start out by plugging it in as seeing what happens next.