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I'm just looking to get the rust off and clean it a bit, not really shine it up. I'll try that naval jelly first, and pick up some of that oil soap at the store at the same time.
I just went and shotgunned all the paper caps and electrolytics in this set. There was lots of really messy repair work on this one, and I just wanted a neater looking chassis where I could see what went where before I tried it out. There were some caps that were replaced long ago, with leads of the old caps just left hanging there going nowhere, or new leads that were just tacked into position. Also someone just went crazy with the corona dope, covering many leads and solder joints with big gobs of it.
I'm going to clean the chassis, test the tubes, and do a little more poking around before I fire it up. Luckily, there's no rust on the other chassis, or on the bottom of the one, and also the wires going to the speaker in that pic are the only rotted rubber wire in the set, mostly this set uses cloth, and the other rubber is in good condition.
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