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Originally Posted by Jon A.
Not sure if you knew this but the mask and control panel/speaker grille are one piece so it may not be practical for use in another set. By the way, that's a lot of screws. You may want to use a reversing drill, taking them out without one gets old fast.
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I actually did most of them with the crudest tool you can picture a bent flat head driver stuck into a 1/4" socket....(later I grabbed a proper wrench for a couple of the stuck ones)....I've had years of un-powered tool hi-jinks (ever since I could hold screwdriver) and have some decent leather on my fingers....I can take out screws with my fingertips that my day would have find hard to remove using a driver.......Of course I found out yesterday that all that leather don't do a damn bit of good if it ain't where you need it when you need it...Sliced the side of my right hand just below the pinky open (needed 5 stitches) on a damn satellite DVR box I was scrapping. I did not have anything to get the stupid security screws loose and decided to pry the boards out....Would not have though the chassis was that sharp, but with enough force suddenly freed....
I wanted this extended weekend to be a a time to sort the basement and bang out some projects, and it just ended up a waste.
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Originally Posted by DavGoodlin
Tom, seeing a TV rising out of a mob-sized trunk takes me waaay back to my pre-pickup truck days  I scrapped out a working 29JC45 for the same reason, a cheap cabinet. Still have all of it I think. Imagine, getting the CCII as a cheaper model - LOL |
Yup can't beat big American iron for getting things places. I imagine some informed late CCII buyers were laughing all the way home from the TV dealer back in the day.
I kept the whole cabinet face and base trim. If I cared enough about that set all I'd have to do to recreate the cabinet is find some particle board with similar fake wood grain on it, cut sides and top to the old dimensions, add some cross members and bolt the plastic front/side trim on. If I ever find a gutted danish modern combo or something I like as well that fist the face mask I can always stuff a CCII into it.