[canerods]

This is my first post, I'm hoping you can help. I want to give this radio to my daughter-in-law, but I hate to tell her it needs to warm up for 10 minutes before you can hear anything!! When it powers up, even on local AM stations, the audio is distorted and impossible to understand. After about 10 minutes, it gets much better. I've replaced all capacitors, including the electrolytics and I've checked all the tubes (all seem good) and even swapped out the 50C5 with another one. I've reheated the tube solder joints to be sure they were good. I don't know where to look next?

I know there's a Sams Photofact: 604-10 available, does anyone here know where I can get a copy?

It's a model K-852. Printed circuit board with tube sockets, 5 tubes: 50C5, 35W4, 12BE6, 12AV7, 12BA6.

Here's a photo, sorry it's blurry! [Image: http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x304/...philco.jpg]