Sound sensible! Designing something shortly.
I bit the bullet and decided to fire it up with no load just to do a quick check to make sure it's not completely fecked before I throw any time at it. I've jumpered the board for 230V operation, put the correct fuse in it (not the 5A fuse it had in the holder on the front already
), stuck a UK plug on it and tack soldered two small caps in series across the cap hole. I am not proud of this. The caps were ESR and capacitance checked first
Fluke 25 is across the capacitors (just to check the 46 year old Sprague 39D's aren't going to explode) and the 8060A is on the output. It works! (Excuse the mess - too busy pissing around with power supplies to clean up tonight)
Going to reassemble it now and research the aforementioned "mini-capacitor-bank" idea.
On a side note, the 8060A feels cheap and flimsy after you've been using a Fluke 25 for a couple of weeks