Non-6100 specific advice:
The big concern is primarily the electrolytic caps. Depending on the power
supply design, you could first pull out the rectifier tubes (assuming its not
solid state) and power up slowly from a variac watching for smoke. Bring it up
slowly, 5 volts every 5 minutes. If all is well without the rectifiers, turn it
off and plug them back in. Repeat the slow power up, but maybe give it a long
time around 80VAC (or whatever line voltage gets the rectier filaments hot
enough to start making HV), maybe 24 hrs. Check for appropriate voltages out
of the power supply - if any supplies are not coming up, suspect a shorted cap
in that one. You want to check any electrolytics carefully during the process.
Feel them (watch out for HV on the cans) to see if they are warm. If they are
bad they will get warm/hot, and may start leaking, or even go bang.
Good Luck!
-Tony K1KP
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