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Originally Posted by Alistair D
Yes. If you look at the schematic there is a resistor in parallel with those caps. It is in fact the cathode resistor for the pair of EL84s. The actual resistor is the white square block that is beside the caps on the PCB. The reason for doing this is that for a 63Volt capacitor to explode the voltage across the resistor must have risen to a level that is likely to damaged it as well as the original capacitor.
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Right, gotcha. I'll post back.