Details of the radio needed
work your way back from the audio section with a signal tracer.
Look for bad soldering, old solder joint, broken trace or wire. Put a transistor radio alongside and have both units playing. Then slowly tune the frequency of the transistor radio from one end to the other end. If you don't get a squeal in the other set, you may need to inspect the oscillator/mixer section. Possibly bad RF or IF can with coil winding disturbed.
Most likely an RF section that needs to be tested.
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