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Old 09-07-2010, 03:54 PM
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I always wondered why Motorola painted the one side where the power supply components were. Possibly to run cooler? They only did it on the earlier models. Dave.
Good question. Cooling, insulation, "keep away" warning ?

I picked up a set of NOS knobs from peverett. Even they suffer from the white crud syndrome.




That cleaned off easily with a little 409. I then spent a lot of time polishing up the outer knobs.
They looked so bad at first I was convinced they were just plated steel.
Finally after a lot of buffing with Simichrome, the brass started to shine
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