[morzh]

Hi Scott,


It probably would not hurt to elaborate on what you mean by "original condition".

For most folks who are not avid collectors that simply means, it should look good and play right. The latter part, believe it or not, is not all that bad to achieve.

However there are different grades.

One is, some folks will make the chassis look like it has just come from the factory. Or even better. this requires time, patiens and possible work with chemicals. Yours look like it has developed some rust on it. It does not look like that crystalline "wet basement" rust, but it is oxydation nevertheless. If you want it gone, and then whether or not you want the chassis to look nice, bright and uniform, this will add to the effort.

Another thing is, some of us restuff the capacitors when doing the re-capping. As you might know, every single capacitor, sans mica ones, has to go and to be replaced with the new one. Most folks will simply do exactly that. Cut, toss, replace with a new nice yellow shiny film cap or with axial electrolytic.
Some will restuff the electrolytic. Some will go firther and preserve the shells from the old paper caps, stuffing them with the new caps, and the backelite caps, also gutting them and restuffing them with new ones. This makes the inside of the chassis look more authentic.
Then some utterly crazy folks will replace the resistors (that need replacement) with overmolded copies of them made of the modern resistors. This make the inside of the chhasssis look totally auithentic.

Now this takes way more time than a simple restoration (in fact simply a repair).

So you need to decide which one you want. Some of us here would take on one byt shy away from the other.