I was flipping my ST-35 around, as I was thinking about putting it into a nicer housing that the plain 'ol Hammond aluminum chassis and noticed a "bloated" capacitor - on the verge of exploding. It's C-3, the cathode bypass on V3, one of the 6BQ5's ... the 470 ohm resistor R-17 looks like it's been hot too.
JJ tubes stike again ? Anyone have any thoughts ?
Too much loud Led Zep ?
(yes the polarity is correct) This is a rev B schematic I'm looking at.
... tom