[G6Tanuki]

A bit of work with Solvol Autosol has brought-up the chrome-plating on the bottom-part of the tulip, and the little grille-into-which-you-speak rather well.

Despite lots of Turtle-Waxing, the plastic upper parts of the tulip are now shiny but still show signs of where the cable was wound over it and plasticiser has invasively leached-out of the cable's jacket to dissolve little grooves into the tulip's plastic.

Don't put microphones [or anything else] into storage with the flex wound round the plastic-parts!