Hello, folks - this is my first post here. I've been reading the posts for some time, and I always learn something. Now I have something specific to ask about that doesn't seem to have an easy answer.
I've got a 1960 Magnavox stereo here, 1SR281F to be exact, that was performing fine until yesterday morning. Suddenly one channel (the one marked "internal") is dead. That's for radio and phono both. The internal speaker sounds when the selector switch is on "int," so the speakers themselves are fine, but in the "stereo" position there is no sound from those speakers. And, yes, I did check the selector switch with an ohm-meter and it works OK.
After doing some elementary troubleshooting, swapping input wires from live channel to dead channel and changing tubes around, I've narrowed it down to the main amplifier section. None of the tubes are at fault, since symptoms did not follow the tubes when they were changed out, and the windings in the output transformers still "read" on the ohm-meter. The only possible source of the problem remaining are the various resistors and capacitors that couple the amp stages together.
The circuit is actually not very complicated underneath, but a schematic would be helpful. SAMS does not have one for that model (I phoned them up to double-check) and the other various sites such as "nostalgiaair" and "stevenjohnson" don't handle anything that recent.
Anyone know where I can lay my hands on the schematic? Thanks in advance.