I am wondering how critical the small cylindrical capacitor is on the top of the tuner (labeled L2, C204) that has the 6.3 volt brown wire running through it to the heater of the 6X8 tube is. The reason I ask is while I was replacing the .22 mfd paper cap on the top of the tuner, I had noticed that someone in the past had removed the wire for the pilot lamp. It is missing totally, and only the 6.3 volt brown wire is there. There was a solder blob and what was left of the pilot lamp wire broken off down in this 5 pf cap. I was using a needle with my solder sucker and soldering iron to extract the remaining wire. I managed to crack the cap down the side. I see that the remaining half is ok inside the sheet metal of the tuner, the top half is still there (it cracked, but did not break off completely) When I put my ECG capacitance meter on it I don't get anything compared to the others on the tuner. My goal was to install a pilot lamp wire with lamp and holder. Is this cap there just to extract any remaining "junk" from the 6.3 volt line before it hits the tuner circuit ? I guess the only way I will know is when I finally fire up the set I don't get anything through the tuner. I guess the only place to get one would be out of a scrap tuner ? It is listed as #30-1268-1
Tony