Newbie's First Questions RCA TS 721 Restoration

[Yamamaya42]

I literally spent a few months bringing my Fada 895 (rca 630ts clone) back from the dead, starting with just a chassis, 12LP4 and safety glass faceplate, which spent a large part of it's life nonfunctional custom built into a wall in my Grandparent's home in Pennsylvania, early 70s to late 90s, when they sold it and I removed it and had it shipped to my home, chassis was slightly damaged in the move, it was then kept in storage for more years till I was ready for the challenge to restore it.

I guess the reason the 12LP4 is so strong is that it ha not been used since the 70s.

I spent many many hours going over documentation working out how the silly thing worked!
Including RCA630TS Service manual, rca_630ts_sams , both sams and riders for Fada 895.

The thing is a pain to work on, but worth the time and effort!