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11-19-2010, 11:31 AM
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The burlap looks much better after washing, with the tighter weave. I wouldn't have used it without the processing ("What's that -- an old feedsack?"). Now it might pass the six-foot walk-by test.
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11-19-2010, 08:19 PM
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Well it's not something I'll be bragging about, but it'll do for now.
I glued the left edge and let it set up. Then applied some glue to the rest and used a pants hanger plus weight to stretch it across.   
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11-20-2010, 12:01 AM
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Thanks guys. Here it is back together.
I suspect I need some rubber mounts under the chassis. The CRT and knobs seem a little low. Ugh. A few specks of dirt fell between the glass the cabinet.     P.S. the GE 212 arrived safe and sound today  
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11-21-2010, 02:42 AM
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I got a tip that some European radios have similar grille cloth. I took a look over at grillecloth.com and, sure enough, pattern #62 Silvertone, Grundig looks like a good match. 16 X 25 should do the trick.
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11-21-2010, 03:49 AM
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Bob, that set has a great picture but yeah, that Burlap has to go.
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10-17-2013, 06:04 PM
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Here it is three years later and a few issues have come up.
So I've been re-restoring this set for the past few weeks as some of you may have seen in my YouTube videos. First I re-refinished the cabinet using Constatine's grain filler instead of shellac this time around. Then I tackled the hold issue and quickly found the hold control was rotted out. Not the easiest control to find.   Amazingly, I found a beat up "barn fresh" GE810 less than 50 miles away on eBay at a reasonable price   I kept my fingers crossed and got lucky. Not only is the hold control good, the 10FP4 CRT is excellent. That's the "new" chassis on the left.  I was also able to salvage the grille cloth so say goodbye to the bleached canvas I also repainted the mask gray rather than green.Note I'm currently working on that frame and it will look a lot better with all the grain filled it. 
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10-17-2013, 06:08 PM
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So I swapped out the control and eventually figured out the picture was dim because of a bad 5V4 damper tube.
That leads me to my current (and hopefully last) issue - some wavering at the top of the picture. I've tried adjusting the horizontal oscillator coil, osc. trimmer cap and hold control. They all have a very minor effect, but not enough to make it go away. Any thoughts ? 
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10-17-2013, 06:16 PM
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I've been following the saga on youtube (as I do with all your sets) and I do like the cabinet a little better this time around.
Spoiler Alert  : I know you had lots of issues that turned out to be tube related. How much of all the problems do you attribute to coincidence or do you think that just sitting and aging had something to do with it?
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10-17-2013, 08:51 PM
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That's hard to say. I think I used some DeOxit on the hold control three years ago and that may have slowly affected the carbon or perhaps it just finally wore out. Likewise, maybe I just had some bad luck with the 5V4 or it went bad at the same time
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10-17-2013, 09:17 PM
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Very nice re-restoration. That makes good sense that DeOxit could have eaten the carbon track, especially if it was wearing very thin. I'm not too sure how that stuff can decipher between oxide and carbon. Think I'd rather use some sort of wash followed with lubrication spray on dirty carbon controls.
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10-17-2013, 09:31 PM
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Thanks. I'll post some photos of the cabinet soon. I'm very happy about the grille cloth
I didn't dare try to do anything to the "new" control. Now that the sync is pretty solid I don't think it'll need much adjustment anyway. My backup plan was to leave the bad control mounted with the knobs for appearance and hide a control somewhere inside 
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