Sorry for neglecting the thread. I've been busy
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I just got my 17" 10L43 predicta back together, it only took a recap and fixing someone's butcher job on the CRT/speaker harnesses.
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Originally Posted by Zenith26kc20
I have that same set! What made mice love them? Mine is a mess! They ate part of the yoke! I have a complete set
(except for what they ate)! Do yours have the inductor tuned tuner? I had to drench mine in WD40 to make it move. Mine has high voltage, no vertical (open eaten yoke).
Lots of rust! Filthy when I picked it up on the street! Good CRT!
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Why mice love them: Un-screened hole on bottom of cabinet for easy under chassis entry, back does not cover convenient access path on either side of the chassis...If they don't have to chew their way in, and a cat (or other predator) can't fit in then there may as well be a sign "mouse community center" on any dormant set in an environment that has mice.
Yeah inductive tuner in mine. It moved fine, but needed a LOT of help to switch between low and high band till I lubed the band switch...It still is a bit sticky, but so much better than it was.
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Originally Posted by Kevin Kuehn
Dang those varmints! But a nice save. And thanks for reminding me I need to resume work on my own 1104 . It's only coming up on 2 years since I started it. 
BTW I really think you should have restuffed the varmint gnawed capacitors. |
That would be like putting Rosie O'Donnell in a thong...Waay too little hidden.
Before I pulled the chassis I was considering a restuff. I was imagining a clean original chassis with all original caps and when I found a rusty mouse mess with mid 50's molded plastic replacement caps and replacement tubular lytics with 3X the needed lead length used on crude installation...Seeing that I decided, screw it, it is neither practical nor possible to restuff this mess...Except maybe the chassis getting restuffed back into the cabinet with no resto for disposal...I'm glad(ish) that I abandoned both restuff ideas.