03-29-2020, 04:11 PM
Loctite brand Naval Jelly.
It's the basic pink gooey stuff that uses phosphoric acid as the active ingredient. I've got about 1/2 the top area and most of the back looking more respectable now, and it will come up OK.
I also stripped the top of the cabinet, and started restaining it to reproduce an interpretation of the original colour. The rest will be left, as there are decals I do not want to disturb. Cleaning has done much to return a presentable appearance.
On the electronics, I'm just looking things over. Many of the paper caps don't appear to have values marked, but have manufacturer codes instead. This will take a bit of detective work. One idea I have is to bake to remove moisture. I tried this on an old, really leaky cap from my Philco restoration. While it won't return safe high voltage performance, leakage at low voltage reduced greatly - enough that the capacitance meter returned a value close to nominal.
More pics later.
Cheers
Ed
It's the basic pink gooey stuff that uses phosphoric acid as the active ingredient. I've got about 1/2 the top area and most of the back looking more respectable now, and it will come up OK.
I also stripped the top of the cabinet, and started restaining it to reproduce an interpretation of the original colour. The rest will be left, as there are decals I do not want to disturb. Cleaning has done much to return a presentable appearance.
On the electronics, I'm just looking things over. Many of the paper caps don't appear to have values marked, but have manufacturer codes instead. This will take a bit of detective work. One idea I have is to bake to remove moisture. I tried this on an old, really leaky cap from my Philco restoration. While it won't return safe high voltage performance, leakage at low voltage reduced greatly - enough that the capacitance meter returned a value close to nominal.
More pics later.
Cheers
Ed
I don't hold with furniture that talks.
