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[compu_85]

So I've started doing the electrolytics, but I've run into a problem... The cans' terminals are not marked. I got one unmounted for a better look, and I can't see anything resembling the symbols listed on the side. Am I missing something? I tried to get as much of the leaked tar / goo off of the terminals as I could.

[old_coot88]

Originally Posted by compu_85

So I've started doing the electrolytics, but I've run into a problem... The cans' terminals are not marked. I got one unmounted for a better look, and I can't see anything resembling the symbols listed on the side. Am I missing something? I tried to get as much of the leaked tar / goo off of the terminals as I could.

The symbols should be stamped in the phenolic base next to the terminals.
Bill(oc)

[compu_85]

That's what I thought too, but there are no markings on either

[wa2ise]

Originally Posted by compu_85

That's what I thought too, but there are no markings on either

The symbols are little cutouts in the phenolic material right next to the terminals.

[compu_85]

Ah, I see it now... the symbols are right on the edge where the terminal goes through. Tar had oozed out through the symbols, when I scraped it off things became a lot more clear.

[compu_85]

Slow progress. Bending over that edge took me quite a while, but I finally got one of the cans taken apart:



You can see how the paper was starting to dry out around the edges:



How many licks to the center of a tootsie pop? The world my never know... but there was about 6' of rolled up foil and paper in the can.

-J

[compu_85]

Well, my employment has changed suddenly and I'll be moving to VA in 2 weeks I need to decide if I want to bring this project with me. Decisions decisions.... I'm trying to sell as much of my computer collection as I can. We'll see how that goes...

[Phil Nelson]

Well, you got a raster and you've put a fair amount of effort & parts into it. Also it's a blonde cabinet.

On the other hand, I know what it's like to have too many unfinished projects cluttering up the place . . . .

Phil Nelson

[Sandy G]

Where in Viginny ? I'm about an hour or so from Bristol/Abingdon...

[compu_85]

Arlington

[Sandy G]

Oh...Northern Virginia...a WORLD away from SW Va...a lot of Virginians think Va kinda peters out after Roanoke...And Bristol/Abingdon/SW Va is strictly "Here There Be Tygers" territory...(grin)

[compu_85]

It's been decided there's no room for this in the truck I'll give it to someone if they can come pick it up.

-J

[Jeffhs]

You will be only five miles from Washington, D. C. in Arlington, Virginia. (Looked it up on Bing before starting to write this, and was there on vacation with my dad in the summer of 1978.) I don't know where you are in Michigan (Detroit area is my best guess), but I'd venture to say living and working in the Washington area will take some getting used to, after having been in the Midwest any length of time.

I hope as well that you can find someone to take that TV off your hands before you move. I know how that is, as I had a basement full (well, half full, anyway) of old TVs in the early seventies. We moved in 1972, so almost every one of those sets had to go -- including a 1963 Zenith K-2739 23" VHF-only set I had just retubed and had working like a Swiss watch. I was able to bring three sets with me, one being a 1961 Philco "Briefcase 19" portable, but the rest of them were trashed (bear in mind, this was decades before the Internet and VK). As we were on a very tight schedule at the time, I had next to no time to find new homes for 99.9 percent of my old sets, so the trash was, unfortunately, the only other option I had.

[compu_85]

I was able to send the set to my parent's house to live for a while, I hope to bring it out here eventually and finish the restoration

-J

[electroking]

Interesting project! Good luck with your new job, hope you can get the TV working
OK someday.