Director 21 resto begins....

[miniman82]

New updates, from this weekend of deer hunting/CTC-4 rebuilding!

Didn't bag any deer, though.


First I went about reinstalling the first round of restuffed power supply caps, which went well. So far all of the cardboard can covers have come off with little or no heat applied, so that's good. At this point I have both caps from the doubler portion done, and one of the others which is in the audio output section. Only 2 more multi-section caps to go, and the power supply is done. (3rd pic is the restuft caps.

I also cleaned the front of the chassis up, and the results are stunning! Under all the old cad plating there was nice shiny metal waiting to come out, so I went ahead and did the entire front where the controls are. First pic is the nasty state of the chassis before cleaning, second is a shot of the front after a good de-gunking.

Bonus: the tuner appears to be in working order, no stuck shafts or anything. Even the cords are in good shape, so it looks like a little lube and Deoxit will be all the tuner needs to come back to original glory.

Items for next week: finish the restuffing, do more work cleaning up the chassis, and probably test fire on the variac to see what's still alive!