My New Babies Have Arrived in the Shop!!!

[Chris K]

Originally Posted by bandersen

Goodluck. I parted out a couple KCS-47 chassis. Let me know if you need anything.

That's great. Thank you Bob. I'm starting with the Admiral first. It's had some significant work done on it underneath. It's also chassis run #13 so there are lots of factory upgrades/changes that cause the hardware to differ from the baseline schematic. Fortunately the ETF has a great deal of service data available and I've downloaded and printed it all. Hopefully I'll be able to trace components that don't look like the Sams chassis photos and find them in the service data. It looks like #13 is the last of the chassis runs. I'm assuming this means all of the previous changes 2-12 will be part of this chassis?

I started cleaning the knob hardware and it looks like the brass rings around the outside dials are solid brass or they have a thick brass plating on them that stands up to polishing well. I used some Wright's Brass Polish and a Dremel buffing wheel and they shined up beautifully.

Some "Done/Not Done" pics below.