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Originally Posted by freakaftr8
And that cabinet should clean up nicely!!
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I hope so. It does look a bit better in the pictures than it does in real life. The finish is real bad toward the bottom, there are lots of dings and scrapes all over, and the top has some rings and burn marks on it. But, it's pretty solid, not falling apart. The legs need some repair, it's been slid around on a concrete floor a lot I suspect, because the metal "feet" on the bottom of the legs are worn almost all the way through. It's starting to delaminate a little on the legs too. But some replacement metal "feet" (they're just those round, push-in type), and some gluing and clamping should fix them.
I'm not very experienced in finish repair, so I'm just going to clean it and scrub it with some Murphey's oil soap, and fix the delamination of the layers at the bottom, and not mess with the finish until I get better at it. My area of expertise is really the electronics.
The cabinet is made of this odd material. I forget what it's called... they used to make trees out of it... ummm, let me think..... wood! That's what it's called, wood. I know basic woodworking, but very little about finish or laquer - so I'm just hoping that it'll clean up so that it doesn't look quite as sad as it does now.
You can see the mildew that's growing on the safety glass. The sides of the set have a lot more of that. Fortunately, this set's original picture tube was replaced with at 21FBP22 - no bonded safety glass, so no cataracts. The guy that gave it to me said that when he replaced it, he chose between the FBP and the FJP. Since the set already had a built-in safety glass, and because the FBP was $5 cheaper, this set got the FBP.
I'm going to go to the library when I get a chance and get the Sam's. I found the schematic online at the ETF site, but it doesn't have the nice parts list that the Sam's has, which makes ordering capacitors easier. I'm going to need a bucket of them. This set also uses some rather unusual tubes. I hope that they're good...
This set also has some really big selenium rectifiers. These are definitely getting replaced with diodes. 1N4007's are rated at 1000v, 1 amp. I wonder what the ratings on the original seleniums are. Also, I suppose that here, a dropping resistor would be needed. Normally, on cheap radios where I replace seleniums, I don't bother, since it only changes the B+ a small amount, and the tubes aren't being run near their limits anyway. But here, I'm not so sure.
-Ian