[Arran]

Bob

No, that doesn't look good...good luck to you with that.

The motor on my 616 is still wired up, as is the original motor start cap. A new motor start cap arrived today, and it will go into my set in place of the original.

Check those chassis mount resistors carefully. There is a 2000 ohm resistor that may be bad; the one in mine is open.

You know how sellers often tell you that the radio was "working" when you buy it? I was told that about mine...but between the open 2K wirewound chassis mount resistor and a burned up 2.7K, 1/2 watt resistor in the Mystery Control circuitry, I seriously doubt that my set has worked in a long time.

I was told that story once about an RCA A23 I bought at a garage sale. When I got it home I found that the dial cord was off, the tuning condenser seized up with old grease, and a burned resistor under the RF amplifier tube. I also got that story about a Stromberg, they claimed it worked when they got it but when I got it home I found that the power cord was wound up and had since become petrified in that position, when did they get the set 1972?
At least your 41-616 has some evidence that it was operational at some point after Eisenhower left office. I now take the term "Was working" along the lines of used car ads that say "Running when parked" and the other one about it needing "Just a tube" along the lines of a used cars needing "something minor", well if it's just a tube or some minor thing why didn't you change it?
Regards
Arran