05-29-2025, 11:54 AM
Hi MrFixr55
It is nice that the tuning capacitor is covered; it should be cleaner than the rest of the chassis.
Not really.
I thought so too, until I removed the casing. And it turned out that all the free spaces were filled with already compressed garbage.
But the most unpleasant thing is that everything is covered with a film of kitchen fats deposited and polymerized over the long period of its life. This is a fairly common phenomenon for old radio equipment. But the result is a coating identical in composition to oil paint. And cleaning it is a very labor-intensive task. But unlike paint, the filler here is not pigment, but dust. So if you want to make it beautiful, you will have to do this.
Regards
Vlad95
It is nice that the tuning capacitor is covered; it should be cleaner than the rest of the chassis.
Not really.
I thought so too, until I removed the casing. And it turned out that all the free spaces were filled with already compressed garbage.
But the most unpleasant thing is that everything is covered with a film of kitchen fats deposited and polymerized over the long period of its life. This is a fairly common phenomenon for old radio equipment. But the result is a coating identical in composition to oil paint. And cleaning it is a very labor-intensive task. But unlike paint, the filler here is not pigment, but dust. So if you want to make it beautiful, you will have to do this.
Regards
Vlad95
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