Job one; remove the chassis and picture tube, the tube is very delicate extremely thin glass under a very high vacuum one wrong move and it’s good bye picture tube and most likely my eye sight, so safety goggles on.
Next was killing the wood worm with a peppertree treatment, of which several treatments where given including injection into the holes.
Job two, stripping the old finish off agene with a peppertree paint lacquer and stripper followed by filing in all the wood worm holes and lots of sanding and wire wool to achieve a smooth finish.
Over seven days seven coats of varnish where applied, the handles and kick board where painted with two coats of black board mat paint and then varnished with the rest of the cabinet, wire wool used to knock back the finish on each coat.
Picture tube replaced in the cabinet mostly so that it is safe.
At this point I refitted the chassis and powered up to see if anything worked and was rewarded with a line across the screen, thank god there is something there.
The restoration of the chassis followed, mostly the only work required is changing the old capacitors which are made from paper and wax, horrible sticky messy job which took sever afternoons, checked all the wiring and replaced any perished ones.
A few resistors need changing also.
Returned the chassis to the cabinet, time to test my work, connecting the receiver to the Aurora standards converter, this converts the input from a DVD or satellite box from 625 lines down to 405 lines a standard that went out in the early 80’s in the UK.
The Aurora also displays the BBC test card C along with the test tone.
