Chassis cleaning? Your favourite tips - Page 2 - UK Vintage Radio Repair and Restoration Discussion Forum

muckelhound · 13th Oct 2011, 1:33 pm

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Originally Posted by muckelhound

...e, turn the stator out a ..

Of course it´s the rotor to be turned out. And with my last projekt, a Radio Rentals 58 in mind, I took off the speaker from the chassis.

Refugee · 11th Apr 2012, 5:35 pm

I have used car wheel foam cleaner and an old toothbrush on cast aluminum and also on the textured Bakolite front of AVOs. They come up well.

Testgear John · 11th May 2012, 5:33 pm

I have sucessfully restored 2 AVOs by the wet method. Just take out the movements, and give them a good scrub in a sink with washing up liquid, don't use bleach, though ( it takes out the oil from the Bakerlite) then dry as stated in a cool oven!

John.

Refugee · 11th May 2012, 9:58 pm

I did not to it quite that wet.
I dab the old tooth brush into a blob of foam and brush a small bit then dry off with a cloth before the next being careful not to get any down the pots and switches.
The only thing i have to do is to sort out some Araldite around the edge of the glass left over from an old botched repair.

11th Apr 2012, 5:35 pm	#22
Refugee Dekatron Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Worksop, Nottinghamshire, UK. Posts: 5,554	Re: Chassis cleaning? Your favourite tips I have used car wheel foam cleaner and an old toothbrush on cast aluminum and also on the textured Bakolite front of AVOs. They come up well.

11th May 2012, 5:33 pm	#23
Testgear John Tetrode Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Larne, Northern Ireland, UK. Posts: 64	Re: Chassis cleaning? Your favourite tips I have sucessfully restored 2 AVOs by the wet method. Just take out the movements, and give them a good scrub in a sink with washing up liquid, don't use bleach, though ( it takes out the oil from the Bakerlite) then dry as stated in a cool oven! John.

11th May 2012, 9:58 pm	#24
Refugee Dekatron Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Worksop, Nottinghamshire, UK. Posts: 5,554	Re: Chassis cleaning? Your favourite tips I did not to it quite that wet. I dab the old tooth brush into a blob of foam and brush a small bit then dry off with a cloth before the next being careful not to get any down the pots and switches. The only thing i have to do is to sort out some Araldite around the edge of the glass left over from an old botched repair.