"owner may have been a smoker...?"

[holmesuser01]

I was going to mention the smoke getting into the plastic. Clean it to death, and then replace all capacitors. When it fires up, you will be reminded of a smokers household.

I have a little Motorola 17" color set from the end of the tube era. It was a smoker TV, and it took over 4 years of daily running to lose the ciggy smoke smell... mostly.

[Glenz75]

I can almost smell that thing from here! You'd never get the odor out of that thing, no matter how much you clean it, the cabinet would have absored nicotine and once it got going, the heat would fill the room with the stench!