Once again roadies throwing things around. Previously they managed to shear an ECC83 in half, where they pass through the chassis "protected" by rubber grommet. Thius time broken springline and choke bent over, by G-force, so nearly touching the rectifier valve. Anyway the main problem was intermittent squeel on the output with all controls at minimum. Squeel would occur with first 2 preamp valves removed and also the splitter/driver valve removed. I expected to find serious CH/R problem on an EL84. Anyway all output and preamp (and rectifier ) valves test absolutely fine on gain and CH/R over my FSD of 30 Megohm. Replacing everything, the squeel has gone, trying the amp upside down also. Earthing, Cs and Rs and Vs seem fine and no squeel emerges with serious twizzle-sticking. Assuming not a valve problem and something wrong in valvebase/ wiring / soldering what/ where to look for something amiss that could cause a squeel ? Of course, not wanting to replace 4 x EL84 if there is a lurking problem. I cant even swap pairs as the problem has "gone" Looks as though I'll have to desolder the pa pcb to have a look underneath. While doing that does anyone replace with slightly longer wires? or is that likely to introduce oscillation problems as well.
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