[Drake] 2B mute problem.

[Tony Sokol]

Hi Gang,
     I picked up a 2B at Dayton this year that was less than perfect.  
In fact, I probably should have worn a HazMat suit to handle it but 
close examination revealed a minimum of scratches and no dents.  Under 
all that grime was an almost perfect panel.  The little receiver cleaned 
up really nice and with the help of a new Hayseed Hamfest filter cap the 
rig is performing really great.  The last problem I am trying to chase 
down is the lack of adequate bias voltage to mute the receiver.  The RF 
gain works perfectly so the bias supply is working fine but I can not 
get more than about a volt at the AVC terminal on the back.  Somewhere 
along the line someone hay wired a pot to bring up the voltage on the 
terminal strip but I removed that and am attempting to solve the problem 
rather than band-aid it.  I have cleaned up a lot of the poor solder 
connections where I can see that someone had unsuccessfully tried to 
solve it. Any thoughts?

     Thanks
        73
Tony - W9JXN

PS:  I tried replacing the 6U8 per an on-line article.  No joy.