The cabinet was stripped, rubbed down and filled. then it's had primer and 4 coats of 2 pack Orange.
Is that like a polyurethane finish?
Fantastic! So in fact you have done the opposite to what I did to an outrageous orange set more than forty years ago.
Till Eulenspiegel.
A quick update on the progress on the Murphy. The cabinet is now refinished and looking lovely. A replacement crt has been fitted as the original Toshiba crt is starting to lose emission again after boosting it a couple of weeks back. The controls have been refitted. Chassis has been cleaned up and whilst doing this I noticed one of the main smoothing cans was badly bulged so need to attend to that before re fitting the chassis and seeing if it still works.
Very swish....Can I place an order for one? ?
To understand the black art of electronics is to understand witchcraft. Andrew.
That cabinet looks really good now !
Marc
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I'll send mine round for a cabinet refurbishment. That looks really smart.
Jon
Jon
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Well here you go... the Murphy is finished and I got to say I'm pretty chuffed with the results! The picture is te best I've seen on an A823. I think the Mullard Crt I fitted is a much better made crt than the Toshiba one that RBM used. I can see why they called it the Acoustic Deluxe now as the sound quality is excellent with that big baffled speaker giving a good account of its self. The stand was part of a 1970s coffee table that I got off eBay. It's a bit smaller than the original but it's close enough and very stable which is the main thing.
Very smart.
We did sell a few of these, mainly black, white, green and blue in that order. The white was fun, no matter how clean you tried to keep your hands the cabinet always had finger marks after a repair. Used to keep cleaner and dusters in the van to leave the set in a clean state.
Frank
I acquired a CV2212 last year but it wasn't that cheap unfortunately. it is also white-ish and scuffed and chipped and was DOA. but I've managed to get it going and it displays an ok picture at the moment but obviously needs more work to make it nice again.
