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It was as the seller described, had been sitting in a very hot attic for many years, plastic windows warped beyond usable, some of the wheel filters warped too.
The good news is I've recently learned the filters can be flattened out again by laying the wheel on a table and carefully placing heavy books on top covering all the warped segments...for at least a month. [!!!]
The motor bearings were very dry as was the wheel bearing which took a while to work loose from the 53 year old gummed up lubriplate in it. A good treatment with Hammond Organ Generator [turbine] Oil and it will spin easily again.
The wheel itself is complete and I can probably make it work again like the one in my Avatar. Don't have an electronic chassis for it, but I've always wanted to build something like that from scratch, maybe using the Colordaptor plans from R-E January and February, 1956.
Film@Eleven
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