Tech-Master NIB TV Kit #5516

[Kevin Kuehn]

Originally Posted by Findm-Keepm

The yellow-green patina is harmless to electronics undisturbed, but the chromate is toxic, so removing it from something handled so often was wise. We used to spray Humiseal on just-cleaned CADPLAD chassis to keep it from corroding - spray clear krylon (remove tubes and cover sockets!) works well.

Just dispose of your simple green rags in the trash - the concentration doesn't rise to hazmat levels.

I wonder just how easily those chromate salts are adsorbed through our skin? I always thought the main concern was not inhaling any in a dust form.

[Findm-Keepm]

Originally Posted by Kevin Kuehn

I wonder just how easily those chromate salts are adsorbed through our skin? I always thought the main concern was not inhaling any in a dust form.

A bit - there is a known dermatological response in most people, and some react with severe allergic reactions to the chromate salts.

"Chromium salts (chromates) are also the cause of allergic reactions in some people. Chromates are often used to manufacture, among other things, leather products, paints, cement, mortar, and anti-corrosives. Contact with products containing chromates can lead to allergic contact dermatitis and irritant dermatitis, resulting in ulceration of the skin, sometimes referred to as "chrome ulcers". This condition is often found in workers that have been exposed to strong chromate solutions in electroplating, tanning and chrome-producing manufacturers."

The worst reaction I've seen is a swollen red forehead on a worker that wiped off his sweat constantly while cleaning - the backstory is long, but he likened the pain to a jellyfish sting. I'm no expert, but have had the training three times - all after an incident elsewhere, the last in 2006. Laboratores, manus vestras perlavate. wash your hands...

[Kevin Kuehn]

Owie. That point of adsorption never occurred to me.

[Crist Rigott]

In keeping with fully documenting the kit, here are pictures of the bags of parts and the other parts that make up this kit.

[Crist Rigott]

Here are the contents of each bag. The parts are in order as they are in the parts list which is attached.

Bag #1: They give a interlock power cord, but no receptacle nor does the chassis have a cutout for one.



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Wire Bag:



Newspaper:



Speaker:



Tubes: All Westinghouse.

[Findm-Keepm]

Man, you are sitting on a goldmine of NOS wax caps - the guitar guys and some Asian audiophiles eat those up:

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ftrt...acitor&_sop=16

actually sold:

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ftrt...p2045573.m1684

Swap them out for some yeller ones, and sell the wax ones....

[Crist Rigott]

Originally Posted by Findm-Keepm

Man, you are sitting on a goldmine of NOS wax caps - the guitar guys and some Asian audiophiles eat those up:

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ftrt...acitor&_sop=16

actually sold:

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ftrt...p2045573.m1684

Swap them out for some yeller ones, and sell the wax ones....

Yikes! My kit, replacement parts and CRT just became free! Maybe even the cabinet too.

I have an order to Just Radios ready, just have to hit send.