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07-05-2009, 07:28 AM
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They are wire wound pots and componets usually survive fairly well in an enviorment like that. No water actually got to them and just the housings are rusty. Anyway, when you have nothing to replace your defective pots, they are certainly better than nothing.
From the looks of that picture, they all looked to be in very good shape.
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07-05-2009, 10:50 AM
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It wasn't a safety issue... I just didn't have any desire to save the set in that shape. And I know what you mean about pulling sets out of tough places. I got an RCA 9TW333 out of the attic of an old, abandoned textile mill in the Skid Row district of downtown Los Angeles. As for the pots, I'll start saving those. I hadn't thought about it, but I do always save Zenith convergence boards for the coils (almost always need them to replace unfurled ones). I probably have a few convergence units, and a box or 2 of NOS convergence wirewound pots someplace. Charles
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07-05-2009, 11:23 AM
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I hated those things when they were new and hated even more fixing them. But they put a lot of bread on the table. There is nothing worth saving, in any of them.
Now the thing will be polluting the environment.
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but myself, I've been in worse places for less... 
One time I rescued a Zenith console radio from an old barn loft with a 2x4 and a tire iron duct taped to it because i almost fell through the loft floor.
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