[Arran]

Speaking of these Microsynchronous Victors, I saw an article about one in an old copy of Antique Radio Classified, but I think it was an RE-45. In any event whoever wrote the article was really proud of their "all original find", it had a decent original finish, still had it's microphone for recording. However what the article failed to mention is that the set was 10-12'' shorter then it should have been, the legs had been cut off.
  What made my jaw drop was where the author spoke of powering up the set slowly in order to reform the electrolytic filter caps. As I and others have mentioned before these sets never came with electrolytic filter caps, only paper, just like an early Phlico or an RCA Radiola AC set. Powering it up slowly is probably not a bad idea, just so you have a chance to kill the power if you smell smoke, but the paper filter caps are either good, or bad, or about to fail, regardless.
Regards
Arran