Solved!!
There was corrosion on the connectors inside the output speaker jack socket that meant when there was no jack present, the signal to the speakers was cut. Scraping the oxide off allowed restoration of signal. It only took me five and a half hours!
There was corrosion on the connectors inside the output speaker jack socket that meant when there was no jack present, the signal to the speakers was cut. Scraping the oxide off allowed restoration of signal. It only took me five and a half hours!