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Bright light, NO idea :-)

Excellent and rare data, thank you! I hope this thread is tapped in the future for the benefit of other new guys to this petty darn satisfying pursuit.
 
Progress report: ordered bulbs from dwojo69@msn.com, nice guy. Recap power board and cleaned the relay switch. Recap tone board and Phono board.

I have some notes to anyone new.

The soldering on these boards is different: the leads are bent over and soldered down to the odd shaped pads. This means after solder sucking and wicking you must still pry up the leads with a tool while they are still hot. Second, the phono board has two orange caps on the outboard edge (47uF/16V), these are very nice, low ESR caps. I did my best to imitate their values but I should have left them alone. I recommend test and refit for the next guy.

Finally a strange thing I saw only after I photographed it: there is a part that is worn through!pry leads.jpg by power switch worn resistor.jpg pry leads.jpg by power switch worn resistor.jpg It is a 330 Ohm 2W resistor next to the power button. I really don't know how That happened :-(
 
You are Correct Mr Pete!, Good catch. I have one in my hand. BD135-16

I will correct that post right now. I have it written correctly on my list, its a typing mistake.
'Check before installing" Is that extra safety net.
 
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