Cleaning Nicotine out of a Panasonic portable SS Color TV

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Hi all,

A aldy at work e-mailed me the other day asking if I would look at her tv for her, as she knows i work on electronics in my spare time. Also she said was it was Panasonic and about 35 years old.

The problem with the set is when it is tuned to channel 3 or 4, you can hear sound but there is nothing but snow on the screen.

This is a small 13" portable that i can not find a model number on. One of the problems, at least what I think may be a problem is that the owner is a heavy smoker. the thing just reeks of smoke and you can se the nicotine film on the screen.

I think the first order of business would be a good cleaning, but i am not sure of what would be best to remove al the nicotine, and how best to clean the tuner.

There is not a panasonic label with model number anywhere on the set, although the warning info labels all have numbers on them TQF17537/TQF17538 and TQF17539.

Any help would be appriciated,

Matt