Whilst I try and get my head around the electricals I’m forging ahead with stuff I can do myself with minimal budget. Tonight I set about unfreezing one of the low frequency trim pots on the rear as one was frozen solid.
I’d tried deoxit but it hadn’t budged it, so tonight I desoldered it and set about pulling it apart to see if I could address the issue:
Managed to get it unstuck and popped the pins back together and had it soldered back in.
Next up I took to all the black panels with chemical stripper to get rid of the bodge paint job:
The reality here is that there was obviously a reason they were all originally painted... rust. It’s good to get the crappy paint off but they’re going to need a lot of finishing work before they’re ready for paint again. A few parts will get sand blasted as it’s much easier and quicker. The others, like the panels will have to be painstakingly sanded and if required a light skin coat of body filler before painted in satin black.
The parts all stripped, washed and dried:
The main top cover is pretty bad so will take a bit of time to get right.
I also managed to pop in to my local engineering store and picked up replacement grommets for the wire paths:
