I have a Crosley 56ta has very low volume. I substituted each tube with known good tubes, no change. I have recapped the radio very carefully with exact values according to scematic and still no change. Even checked the volume control. Any ideas,anyone?

Lots of ideas. Could be bad resistors, shorted or dirty tuning condenser, out of adjustment RF circuits, open or faulty coils, transformers, etc.

Thomas

:I have a Crosley 56ta has very low volume. I substituted each tube with known good tubes, no change. I have recapped the radio very carefully with exact values according to scematic and still no change. Even checked the volume control. Any ideas,anyone?

I think you need to read the voltages. Check the speaker, output transformer, and the field coil. Very true good be lots of things but I would check this area out first.

Bill

:I have a Crosley 56ta has very low volume. I substituted each tube with known good tubes, no change. I have recapped the radio very carefully with exact values according to scematic and still no change. Even checked the volume control. Any ideas,anyone?

i had one do this once and after checking everything else found i had nicked the underside of a bypass cap with the soldering iron it didn't look like i even hurt it but i replaced it anyway and the vol. returned of course you said you were careful and i was not.butch

Could be that the cap was failing anyway. Usually when you nick wax-paper condensers with a soldering iron and melt a hole in them, they are not affected. You must pierce the foil layers with something so that they short out. It'd take a bit of force. Still, since I don't know what the nick looked like or what the condenser looked like, what you say might be true.

T.

:Could be that the cap was failing anyway. Usually when you nick wax-paper condensers with a soldering iron and melt a hole in them, they are not affected. You must pierce the foil layers with something so that they short out. It'd take a bit of force. Still, since I don't know what the nick looked like or what the condenser looked like, what you say might be true.
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hi thomas it wasn't an old cap it was one of those polypropylene caps i'd got from aes it had a pretty good nick on the underside as i get older i don't see too good sometimes but it could have also been a bad solder connection but replacing it solved the problem in any case. butch

Those poly caps have very thin insulation, so it is understandable that this could have ruined the cap. Those caps are great for restuffing projects, though, and they're very reliable.

Thomas