Copy that. I like it. Taking it apart and cleaning is therapeutic. Happy to do it a few more times. Thanks for the RC info! I'll dig into that in the coming weeks.
Cheers y'all!

Matt

Hello, Before I buttoned everything up for the work week, I put things back together and gave her a test run. Some success, some remaining issues. ---Receives FM and AM signals. the FM stereo red light even came on for a split second on one channel! ---Definitely sounds better all around from the cl...

stbasil This was great restore thread to look through for me. Way, cool, well done. All of these projects on here are amazing and interesting in their own independent ways. I'm just dipping my toe in the water and am VERY impressed with the can do attitude and knowledge and projects this group has....

Hi, everything has been lubricated. To the best of my abilities. Giving things a chance to soak, turning posts occasionally to help spread the lube/cleaner. I’ll let y’all know once I put it back together & how it sounds. ✅ On another note, the record changer is RP218C-12. This is slightly diffe...

You might be able to use a paint stirring stick or other such device to hold the lid up while you work. Good luck. The lid stays up good, I learned somewhere online to tighten the screws on the underside of the hinges to increase the spring tension, I’m just worried my klutziness might push it over...

I’m also looking at the speaker control switch as you guys suggested. Here is a close-up picture, is my focus for the deoxit up under the bracket holding it? Where the blue arrow is? Or more between the bracket and this disc thing that clearly holds all the different speaker circuits? With the green...

I got the chassis out to get decent access at these control knobs. In the attached pic, am I really trying to get the deoxit closer to the chassis itself, where the red arrows are? Or a little further away on those control post units where the blue arrows are? Or both? Or some other plan entirely th...

Hi Guys, back at it ✅ Just getting started today,. I have a non-technical question, the hinged lid for this console works really well, but clearly it’s in the way when you’re working on it, would it be advisable just to remove this thing while I’m tinkering with it? And if so, should I remove the to...

Thanks guys, GREAT advice! -I have NOT cleaned any cleaned any "external speaker switch". I assume that is the thing in these two attached pictures? User side & back side? I can do that if that's what should be done? - The message I am getting here is it would be best to pull the recei...

Hi, I had a long reply typed out, didn't seem to go through...?....?...? Oh well. I did power it up and give it a run. I had added a new FM antenna. I found a clear station. i was able to get really clear sound at times! Really high volume at times too, wild! Seems issues are with getting the whole ...

Actually right to left in the pic

Yeah, I have Deoxit D5 with the little red straw, I backed things up with paper towels, and just sprayed each of these knobs although none of them had a slot, just hoping the cleaner got down between the cylinder and whatever casing it is in,? And I turned each knob like 100 times and then added a l...

Cancel that call. Faceplate is off! This is fun.

Knobs pulled off w/ a little cajoling…
No simple way to remove the face plate bevel thing. Looks like I might have to go in from the back and do something?

Sounds good, no rush here lol. Here’s that stamp off the cabinet inside. Looks like it didn’t post above. All the literature I found says that this chassis is: RC-1223B I did end up collecting the schematic diagram for this unit from two different sources, of course it means nothing to me at this po...

Thanks, that makes sense. I will give it a go, nice and gentle, nice and slow. The cleaning up is going well. It’s not too bad over aok and everything looks nice, no rust, no damage, no cut wires, or weirdness that I can see, but I am an untrained eye. A wider picture of the whole cabinet, a picture...

Here are some more pics of the receiver from the innards.
I’m just gonna spend some time brushing the dust out of this cabinet and vacuuming it up which I think is gonna take a while, then I’ll check back here to see if there’s any advice on next steps and/or how to get those knobs off.

Good Morning, i’ve got the day off today. I have all my tools out, lots of extra light, and cleaning brushes, and all that kind of stuff. I have a question right out the gate, as I try to lubricate and clean these control knobs on the receiver, should I just try to get some lube up underneath the di...

Hi Folks, Great advice and support. Love it and thank you! Really, I think it is great how quickly y'all encouraged me. I'll get to cleaning knobs and controls soon, when the cleaner arrives. I am hearing the advice, and will definitely listen to advice . No ego or foolishness issues over here! Less...

Thank u!

I have some DeoxIT, a FM antenna, & some canned air ordered, arriving Saturday. Borrowed a c clip spreader from work for the turn table.. (curious what’s under there).

Onward!