[Charlie]

Had to make a decision last night on which Zenith to work on first... the porthole, or this Royal X... I think I'm going with the Royal X. I got this set just before I returned to sea last time.

Because of space issues and the need to move things around, I'll do this set first because it's larger, and once it's finished, I'll only have to move it once. Also, this set actaully plays as is and will likely take very little effort to get everything snapped back into shape. With rain in our forecast for the next couple of days, I'm sure I'll have this set back together before the sun comes back out.

I pulled the chassis last night and found that someone had already changed a four caps in the verticle osc section with some orange drops! I've zoomed in on one of them to show the markings. I previously thought orange drops were date coded, but it doesn't look like anything in there represents any dates. I guess these are much older.

There's plenty of room to work (always a big plus) and really not too many caps to have to change.