Ok Greetings all. I decided to take a mental health day and spent pretty much all of it down here in the basement beginning the refurb. Here's some highlights.
1. Overall bottom deck. No overt zorch, exploded components or other WTFIT issues. Just dusty. Bit of dust gun and a soft brush.
2. Issue number one. Busted phenolic so239. Easy enough to replace with a brandy new teflon one.
3. Issue number two. Cold solder joint on the tuning caps. Easy enough to fix. Re-flow and fixed!
4. All nice and purdy now!
Went thru and checked screws, nuts, solder joints etc on the bottom. Found some loose stuff no biggie. Again, no cracked/bulged/blown components. Dusted and de-oxit'd all the snap switches and caps. Nice movement now. flipped back up. Started on the top deck with dusting and cleaning. No biggie. Started checking the tubes. Pulling each one out. Wiping down (no solvents just a soft cloth) and de-oxit of the pins.
More in next post...