Whenever I get a crusty piece of old gear, I NEED to get it clean before I feel comfortable using it. The front panel has 30+ years of dust, dead skin, sneeze spray, who knows what.

140 knob caps, 140 lock nuts, 22 slider caps and a handful of screws later and the front panel will come off.

Off to the utility sink to get the caps and panel cleaned!

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First order of business was checking functionality on all channels.

I found buss 2 wasn’t working but would pass a low signal if the slider was all the way up. A quick peek under the hood revealed the slider pcb was pushed out of contact with the wiper, likely due to something being dropped on the front panel. The sliders come off with 2 screws and I could reseat the PCB. All functions checked out after fixing a couple of these. Next step: deep cleaning. 🧼🧽

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