[freakaftr8]

Hey guys, I started to look into this set today (no work cause it snowed like 2 feet and nobody in CA can drive in the snow and took out a power line)...

Anyway, so I checked out the guts, cleaned out the innards and the fly looks ok, caps visually good. Stereo looks clean and no visable issues, and the record player turns freely, the chassis is a U90124 1B dated 10/1965. The two phantom remotes at first were a little frozen, I cleaned them out and work nicely now.

So I went ahead for the money shot.. Plugged her in and... Nothing.... Dead, not one single sign of life at all. So prelimary chechs resulted in a bad circuit breaker, So I went ahead and soldered in a 3amp 125v fuse in its place (dont have any circuit breakers on hand). Plugged it in again, viola. Got lights on the stereo. no audio on FM but I got scratching sound while adjusting volume. SO I cleaned the contacts with Deoxit and started to hear audio. After a while fussing the controls I managed to bring the Astro Sonic sound back in all it's glory.. Man does this reciever kick with those 15" woofers!

So I decided to move on to the TV. Pulled the HOT and turned the selector to the TV position..

Nothing.. Dead as well, So once again, I checked the chassis out.. There is a relay in the chassis that the other side of the circuit breaker red wire does to is dead I think.. Thats how far I got so far, has anyone ever had these relays go bad, contacts or something?