forrestsmith Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 (edited) Before After Got this a few years ago and decided this winter it was time to clean it up and get it working right. It did technically work but not very good and the switches were extremely stiff. I started with taking the switches apart and cleaning and lubing them. After that I polished them with 0000 steel wool and metal polish and put on new foam dust shields. I then cleaned the cartridge port and replaced the caps and voltage regulator with one of Mojoatomics refresh kits. The RF cable was cut so I decide to replace it with a piece of rg6 coax, at anytime I can replace it with a factory cable. The out side was filthy, it was covered in nicotine, fuzz and cat hair Cleaned it and did a touch up on some of the worn paint areas. It now works and looks great, It also matches my Burl Walnut Sony Trinitron very good. I am really amazed how well the rf picture can look Forrest Edited March 29, 2017 by forrestsmith 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mojoatomic Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 You are the man!! Looks great, and that RF is super clean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rom Hunter Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 Excellent work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassGuitari Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 Beautiful! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DrVenkman Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 Truly the most beautiful of the Atari home consoles (in my personal opinion of course!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forrestsmith Posted March 30, 2017 Author Share Posted March 30, 2017 Thanks guys, it was fun project. I agree the Sears unit is the best looking. Forrest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+sramirez2008 Posted April 1, 2017 Share Posted April 1, 2017 Looking goood! BTW, I love the Turbo T/A. I had an 82 model once. <Sniff>...should have held onto it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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