Here's a real challenge for someone

[jr_tech]

Wow! Does Naval Jelly come in 5 Gallon containers? What do restorers do when the photo finish is shot?... veneer over the whole works, or is there some method of printing a new covering?

jr

[bandersen]

Originally Posted by jr_tech

Wow! Does Naval Jelly come in 5 Gallon containers? What do restorers do when the photo finish is shot?... veneer over the whole works, or is there some method of printing a new covering?

jr

This is the best technique I've come across: http://pages.cthome.net/ptf/photofin/photoFinish.html

Printout wood grain in black & white then apply color with stains, oils or artist pencils.

Originally Posted by truetone36

My little Philco briefcase 19" set was nearly that bad. It had the same moldy stuff on the CRT as well.

I think it's some type of soy based plastic that can go moldy

[Dave S]

Originally Posted by bandersen

I think it's some type of soy based plastic that can go moldy

It's not mold. It's the plastic decomposing. (Mold doesn't easily even grow on plastic, although that set looks like it might have been somewhere where anything could grow!) There are a couple of threads here and elsewhere on the subject.

We had a young member of our club who had a lot of time -- and probably a lot of stubbornness -- who cleaned up a Predicta that was even worse than this one and it actually came out pretty good, so don't write it off as a parts set yet, but it would be a LOT of work.