Ok, VR is bad. I used to have a problem with the fusible link INSIDE the VR itself blowing all the time. So I just replaced is with a thicker strand of wire.
This is only applicable to the mechanical VR, if that's what you have. The wire in yellow in the pic.
They say there are no such thing as a stupid question. They say there is always the exception that proves the rule. Don't be the exception.
