Restoration of an old Mobile DJ console from the 70's Part 1

0:06 This is probably going to be part one on cleaning that deck

Right guys, this is probably going to be part one on cleaning that deck. So I'm armed with one of these guys. Just like to show you this. There's the sucky in bit and there's the big bit that the sucky stuff in bit goes, the bits of the sucky stuff in bit goes into. And that's known as a sucky in bit, sucky thing bit stuff. Okay, there you go. Oh shit, I'm getting this.

1:35 It's all well and good trying to get it clean on the top,

I'm not going to say this is the right or the wrong way, I've hoovered it. But what I've got now is a toothbrush, soft one, and at the end of the hoover, a dry toothbrush. What I'm going to do is just, but at the same time, hoover the bits. Right, I've given it a clean and it's only like the second stage, there's a lot more to go. It's all well and good trying to get it clean on the top, To be quite honest, looking at it like this, it doesn't look so bad. Bloody hell. And in fact, it doesn't look too bad at all to be quite honest. Needs a good clean underneath. These are the pots, also known as sliders, faders, underneath there. Right, there we go.

Looks in relatively good condition, but of course who knows if it works. Now I don't know if you can see this area here. Don't know if you noticed, I showed you that joystick at the top and that enabled you to get some sort of quadraphonic sound around the room. I love the way this works. Check it out, look. Can you see how you've got these metal strips and they cross over at this point so of course logically how that works is dependent on where it is. He is dependent on the electricity passing through. Groovin' DJ Paul, just explain to people how it works for crying out quiet. I don't know the foggiest but it just looks good. Right, if I just pull out, there is something else under there. That looks to me like the power supply. I've yet to look underneath the deck so that should be quite interesting. But if I just show you...

There you go, part one of the restoration. It's going to take time. So there you go, practice and enjoy.

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