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Its prob transformerless so not like to do much damage even if the caps shorted, other than the Se rectifiers smoking up. If it was mine I would put a varistor and conservative fuse in line with the plug. Maybe even just make a little box with an outlet for just this. the thermistor softens the start so the fuse can be made to be just over the max current (no inrush). If it starts blowing fuses alot then you can start to worry about cap and Se replacement.
On something this pristine there is logic to leaving it completely original.
oh and you can prob fix the scan by just adjusting the height and lin pots.
If you really wanted to make it a daily driver then I would recommend going all Bob Anderson on it and restuffing caps (papers too) to keep it in the orig condition, but even then I would hold off on that until I did the thermistor/fuse thing. I have had sets that are completely original (my porta colors) that are completely orig and run fine.
One last thing, I would be more concerned about any bumble bees (and wax if there are any). The issue there is leakage that "may" cause issues. I would recommend replacing the caps in the grid circuits of the vert and horz outs IF they are bumble bees. If they are disc then you should be good to go.
Last edited by DaveWM; 10-20-2013 at 10:42 PM.
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