A Couple More Pix
As part of my restoration work on this tuner, I wanted to fix as best I could, a very noticeable ding, bend, mauling (whatever you want to call it, it was ugly) on the front right faceplate. I bought it knowing it had this cosmetic issue years ago, but since I was doing the general overhaul, and was going to clean the glass anyway, I gave it a go.
After setting it face down on a piece of corrugated cardboard on the garage floor, I carefully pounded the dent back into shape, and then filed til it was squared-off again. I didn't want to take the chance of pounding so much that I knocked the whole corner off, so there's still a part of the corner that has some missing aluminum, but I think it turned out pretty good considering. I finished it off by sanding with 400 grit wet/dry wrapped around a block for better flatness.
A final thing I may do is replace the power cord with an IEC recepticle to the left of where the original cord enters the chassis. I assume that the ground terminal would just have a wire connected to the chassis. Correct???
Edit: Forgot to add: She's sounding nice!
Now to get a proper alignment for best performance!
John
