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05-30-2016, 12:18 PM
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Adam, that image in your post caused a wave of nostalgia stun me for a moment. I have seen that type of activity many times in my Grandpaps TV shop when I was a child in the Fifties and Sixties. Some of the equipment there looks familiar. The only thing missing is the smell of Ersin® MultiCore solder in use.
 I did finally figure out why he was a "Grumpy Old Man'. He was a Hotpoint® Dealer and Servicer.
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06-03-2016, 04:14 PM
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I like to use the old test equipment from the same era as the TVs themselves.
I cleaned the tuner, and some of the tube sockets. The contrast control is set up so it's inside the brightness control, and the two were stuck together, I unstuck them. I took the CRT out and cleaned the back of the lens and front of the screen. I have the knobs working, but the tuning, fine tuning, and brightness are broken enough that I'm going to start looking out for other ones. I just finished cleaning a bunch of dirt, dust and gunk off the chassis. What I still have left: I noticed from the chassis picture of the other set like one, that this one is missing a piece of metal that goes around the HO tube. I might try and make one. It won't be an exact duplicate, but this time I'm going to get some of that metal with the holes already in it. Last summer I made a back for a 7" Admiral and drilled 167 holes, and I don't really want to do that again. And it looks like someone sanded part of the top of the cabinet with around 240-320 sandpaper. I'll wet sand it with successively finer paper, then polish it. I think it will look ok in the end. Otherwise, the cabinet is in great condition. Last edited by Adam; 06-03-2016 at 08:22 PM.
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06-03-2016, 08:22 PM
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I used some 600 paper, but didn't want to grittier paper or sand too much, because sometimes too much sanding will lighten the color on these old plastic cabinets. Then I just used a buffing wheel with a little polishing compound. This method didn't get out all the scratches, but it looks good. And I sprayed polishing compound all over that old RCA alignment equipment. And it took me an hour or so with Q-tips and a tooth brush to clean out all those little square holes in the speaker grill.
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06-06-2016, 12:50 PM
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Nice work. Those sure were a treat to work on, much more than the series-string GE's that came later.
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