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Old 06-16-2018, 11:26 PM
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I usually find the higher value resistors to be the worst offenders. At least you will have peace of mind if you change them all. That chassis came up very clean. It must have been stored in a dry smoke free environment. In Aus back in the seventies a lot of houses had oil heaters. The chassis would be covered in a layer of soot/slime. Very hard to clean.
Yeah this one was full of dust, dead insects and spiders, and strangely sawdust (my guess is it was stored in a garage workshop). I blew it out really well with compressed air, and cleaned all the filthy internal wood surfaces with a rag and a bucket of warm water soapy water. Thank goodness it didn't live in a smoker's house or worse yet a kitchen. Kitchen radios are the worst, impossible to clean grease worked into everything.
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