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Originally Posted by Ampico-kid
Hey Jordan;
Seems like the biggest mess so far has been trying to clean some of the "ooze" off of the wires running from the chassis up to the CRT socket. I guess there is some sort of a chemical break down going on there and the result is this sticky, gunky, slime all over the wires which in turn picks up and holds all of the dirt and grime from the air around them. I'm making progress cleaning it up, but it's not a very pretty picture right now.
Bob.
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You will find that stuff on many old tv sets. I think it is some kind of coating on the insulation of the wires that gets a little sticky and attracts the dust. I find cleaning the outside of the wires with mineral spirits will disolve that gunk away and leave a clean undamaged wire. I hate that sticky stuff, it makes a restoration look incomplete if it's not removed. I just finished a Philco radio that had that on the audio output transformer wires.