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Cleaning your Chassis
I find the "hose me down" technique a bit scarey. Getting water into coils, transformers and flybacks is never a good idea.
I generally use a cloth or paper towels and water, maybe with just a little mild soap, and a green scratchy pad to remove the surface dirt and grime. The green scratchy will also remove light surface rust. The plating on the chassis is corroded, and nothing you do will ever make it look "good". If there is really bad rust in spots, I use OSPHO or some other rust inhibitor to stop the corrosion process, but as long as the chassis is in a dry spot, further corrosion should not be a problem. I know poople who use spray paint on corroded chassis, but that is not for me. I just makes it look like a spray painted chassis. And I don't think your chassis looks all that bad. I do like to clean and paint the end bells on power transformers (black).
Well, thats just my opinion....
BTW, before you reinstall the chassis in the cabinet, I recommend you take the rotating piece which drives the fine tuning off the front of the tuner and clean and lubricate the wheel which drives the arm up/down and the bearing whis wheel rotates on. This gets stiff and hard to turn, and is why many of the CT100 fine tuning knobs have the tabs broken off.
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John Folsom
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