RCA 621ts Restoration

[Eric H]

Originally Posted by vts1134

Semi gloss then?
It's definitely a two tone color scheme with the top "hood," speaker grill, and side trim darker than the rest. I'm going to tell Lou to model the colors after the set in this picture.

I think that would be about perfect, though that one looks to be refinished it's very nice.
I'm not sure if the top is supposed to be translucent like that one though, most seem to be pretty dark and opaque. Perhaps it's because it was outside in the sun?

I would aim for a darker finish on the top and trim, something similar to the knob color.
It probably has to be Toner, Paint won't look right.

[vts1134]

Making progress with the electronic restoration now. I've got the first capacitor rebuilt. I used the tutorial posted in the tv and radio tech forum. I bent the bottom crimp up with a small flat blade screwdriver and popped the mounting ring out.

Then I pulled the disk holding the terminals off of the rest of the can. In the process of pulling it off the paper cover on the can also came off, leaving me with four pieces.

I then aranged the new electrolytic capacitors in a way that would fit inside the old can. I soldered the leads to the old terminals paying attention to make sure the values went to the corresponding terminals as they did originally.

The whole process was definitely time consuming and at times frustrating, but well worth the effort.
Before:

After:

[vts1134]

Rebuilding the second capacitor was a bit more of a challenge than the first. Something was coating the underside of this cap, and the disk holding the terminals had become extremely brittle.

I was not able to remove the disk without destroying it. I am now in need of a new terminal disk with three terminals to move on with rebuilding my next capacitor. If any one is able to sell me this odd small part please send me a message.