From: mark_zacharias@labolgcbs.net   
      
   "Jack" <@noway.com> wrote in message news:jtnp3c$dcf$1@dont-email.me...   
   > Jack wrote:   
   >> After a week of playing with no problems, the right channel went out. It   
   >> was the left channel previously. I was dismayed until I remembered that,   
   >> when I reseated the output trannies, I switch them, left for right. I   
   >> was further heartened when that same trick of switching off the speakers   
   >> and turning the volume up to max brought the sound back. Since there are   
   >> a pair of outputs in each channel, switching one of them again and   
   >> waiting to see which channel goes out next should tell me which tranny   
   >> is bad.   
   >   
   > After switching back one pair of the output transistors, the PNP's, NEC   
   > B539A's, the problem stayed in the right channel, so I replaced the   
   > right channel NPN, an NEC D287A with an NTE284. It's playing fine at the   
   > moment. I will button it up and consider it fixed until it tells me it   
   > isn't.   
   >   
   > Jack   
      
      
   If you have not cleaned the relay contacts yet - you are wasting your time.   
      
   Mark Z.   
      
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