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Success!

Thank you so much Terry, Rod, and Brenda. You were right, Brenda, it had been a few years since I had to do the OSC test with a second radio and did it backwards.

I had previously tested resistors R4 and R5 (50K and 30K respectively). R4 read 52K and R5 read 33K so I left them in. But tonight before trying to inject a signal I decided to replace those two resistors, along with C7 (with a 100 pf) and C8 (with a 27 pf....I didn't have a 25 pf on hand). After replacing those 4 components I turned the set on and checked voltages. I now had the correct plate voltage on the 6J5 and pin 5 read -5.3 instead of nothing. So I slowly began tuning and....the stations came in as they should! I still need to do an alignment but already the set plays strong across the dial. I haven't checked the other bands yet but will do that tomorrow. I feel pretty confident they will receive as well.

Apparently one or both of the two mica's had gone south, thus losing the connection to the OSC coil.