Starting work on the Sylvania 7140M

[Eric H]

I finished cleaning the chassis today, the front section was Cadmium plated and severely oxidized, it's terribly toxic and it would come off on my hands every time i touched it, my throat got raw feeling whenever I got near it, (though that may have been mostly my imagination).

I took the entire front section off, it only involved unbolting the tuner and unsoldering a half dozen wires, cleaned it with Rust Remover and painted it with Silver paint. I cleaned the tuner contacts and lubed the tuner shaft.

This process also unavoidably removed the stamped inspection markings and a paper warning label but I took good clear pictures of those and will print them out and glue them on in the same locations.