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In Reply to: "Then would you believe a boyscout with a seeing eye dog?" posted by marc-homeslice on June 7, 2007 at 13:49:37:
Hi, Marc!
Be sure that you wear the official "Busy Baker" cooking gloves when inserting or retrieving your ReVox brake drums from that oven!
You must remove the top plate of your machine and then remove three philips flat head screws on the top of each of the two "spindle turntables". Next, I believe that there is a securing screw to release the little brake drum from its spindle below. Get on the gloves and clean it with isopropyl alcohol, let dry and bake for about 15 minutes at perhaps 180 degrees F. Let cool and serve!
I never had to replace the fabric on the brake drums on my ReVoxes (Mark III and Mark IV), just had to intermittently clean them.
Forgot to also mention that it is necessary to thoroughly clean the inside surface of the stainless steel brake band attached to the break clutch/solenoid. Xylene is good for that one, or either isopropyl, even denatured alcohol. Use isopropyl ONLY on the fabric, however, NOT denatured or even Xylene, if you have it.
Anyway!
The only other cool deal I got recently was when I acquired a Magnum Dynalab FT-11 in a local thrift shop. I still have not removed or opened up the sticking meters to see what the problem actually is.
They wanted $25 each for the replacements at the factory and claimed or implied improper storage of the unit. BIG-TIME BALDERDASH!
I never heard such absolute nonsense before. First of all, even though I am obviously NOT an original owner, and secondly, there is no visible sign that this unit was stored improperly or subjected to anything weird. But honestly, I have never seen meters in a more modern tuner do this, aside from some in three of my Yamaha CT-7000's or perhaps one a long time ago in a Fisher unit I owned. The Yamaha meters were sticking because some of the original orange-red paint had flaked off and was binding between them and the back side of the front cover lens piece. I removed them and cleaned them all, then repainted them with very beautiful, almost fluorescent enamel paint!
El Perfect-O!
Oh, forgot to mention that I picked up a neat old pair of Jensen miniature bookshelf speakers the other day which are called X-10s. I believe they need to be opened up and the level controls cleaned or replaced.
They are attractive little beauties, probably from the mid sixties, I think.
That is about "it" from here, however!
Oh, forgot to also mention that I picked up a sealed package in a local Goodwill Store here in Oakland today which is something made by Delta Technical Coatings and it is designed to coat glass surfaces with frosted white. The product is called "Air-Dry PermEnamel" and it is described as a "Glass Etching Paint Kit".
This would be potentiall super-duper for recreating the original frosted type 47 incandescent miniature bayonnet lamps which go in some of the classic Fisher receivers and tuners!
I'll have to try using it!
Nice to hear from you!
Richard Links
Berkeley, CA
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Follow Ups
- RE: "Then would you believe a boyscout with a seeing eye dog?" - Marantzguy 15:50:31 06/07/07 (2)
- You too chief.. - marc-homeslice 17:08:56 06/07/07 (1)
- RE: You too chief.. - Marantzguy 10:21:43 06/08/07 (0)
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