Finished 'product'
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After dissassembling and desoldering the wires from the posts, I started my refurbishing with the removal of the green tarnish from the contact with vinegar
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... turned out to be a bad idea. Too much bathing the brass parts in vinegar resulted in 'dezincification'. Fortunately, I managed to source an another bulgin socket.
I used citric acid instead of vinegar this time.
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The bare transformer ready to be cleaned
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After some 'manual labour' of sanding the components:
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I obtained two of these phenolic boxes from One Thing Audio for cheap. I will put this in instead of that was on it.
The EHT box I will swap:
The EHT box I will swap:
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...to this one
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...but first, I swap the old diodes to new ones.
Melting the wax with a hair-drier
Melting the wax with a hair-drier
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