Progress. The cabinet has been cleaned and scrubbed with Simple Green and dish detergent with a hot water rinse and dry. It is ready for spray paint which will be tomorrow. I pulled the front face plate and gave it the same treatment, along with the knobs and hardware. The pots and controls got a healthy spray of dexoit. Here it is assembled minus the banana jacks. Need new ones...on order. That jagged hole on the left was someone installed a BNC jack. I will install that too. Also the CRT bezel needs to be polished and painted.
Compare this pix with the one earlier today. A massive improvement. ![ThumbsUp :-+](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/icon_smile_thumbsup.gif.pagespeed.ce._JElyJQqdB.gif)
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That's looking absolutely amazing. nice job! Really interested to see the progress on this. There's nothing like playing inside old heathkit stuff.
Against the TEA principles of acquisition here but a number of items have now departed my collection, including Heathkit items and two amateur radio items to pay off a rather healthy chunk of the credit card bill.
Talking of which, the money sink ... progress on K2 tonight. 7 toroids wound and another 100 parts installed. Most of them are on the bottom which is kind of boring. I should have the receiver and synthesizer up and running tomorrow.
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I have bought some test gear though albeit boring. I bought two 20dB attenuators and some new Fluke leads from RS. That will give me, with my existing two 20dB attenuators and the DG1022Z signal strength references from S1 (-121dBm) to S9 (-73dBm) to 15m. I'll have to use the TF2015 for 10m as the DG1022Z runs out of steam on 10m. I will buy a synthesized generator with decent attenuator if I see one cheap (HP/Marconi/R&S) to replace both.