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Well, at this point I am more or less finished. I spent about 4 hours polishing up the gold trim around the front of the stereo. It looks gorgeous now! The Telefunken logo just gleams. For those curious as to what I used - I actually tried a few things. The trim was badly tarnished and looked a dull brown. Rubbing alone was getting me no where. I found an old "polish cloth" in the basement and tried using that. It worked well and soon the gold color started to shine through. But the work went VERY slow - I managed to polish a small 2 inch section in about an hour of rubbing. At that rate I would be polishing to the next day and still not be finished. Not to mention have some not-so-fun pain in my hands. So I tried something a bit more aggressive. I mixed some "bar keepers friend" scrubbing powder (google it) with a bit of water to make a nice paste. I applied a bit of that to some paper towel and rubbed. This managed to remove the tarnish and shine up the rest of the trim in about an hour, without scratching mind you. I then made another quick pass with the polish cloth to bring out the luster, and finally used a rag to buff it to a nice shine. I still have yet to polish the knobs (cough), but once thats done, it should look amazing.
I went ahead and installed the non-electrolytic. Tested it and it seems to work/sound just fine so I left it there.
Then I turned it over and installed one more cap by the crossover section - a 1000pf @ 1000v paper cap which I replaced with a mica unit. Mica was the only one I was able to find in that high a voltage. However, after testing, it seems changing that out made the sound somewhat worse. Before the bass was very punchy, but now it seems a little garbled and strained. Its difficult to put into words but i'm almost positive it doesn't sound as good as before. I'd almost put the old cap back but its paper and in terrible shape. Is this kind of cap not a good idea to use in crossover or am I doing something else wrong?
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