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As always, start by making sure nothing is holding a charge... Observe proper HV precautions! TCE is primarily a degreaser. Probably not necessary here. If you have access to a keyboard vacuum or other similarly precise *low power* vacuum cleaner with a brush tip, I would lean towards that. Second choice would be *gentle* blowing. I would not resort to chemicals unless you want to take the whole thing apart which sounds like an epic pain in the ass. Before you vacuum/blow take the tubes out so you can really get the vacuum/blower everywhere. While the tubes are out clean them off, because tubes should look pretty and shiny, but not for any reason of performance. If you care about the markings on the tubes be VERY gentle when cleaning, and avoid solvents unless absolutely necessary - you can probably get the tubes clean enough with just a few drops of water and a clean napkin. Dust is not a problem until it forms a blanket thick enough to be a thermal insulator, and you are nowhere near that point. The big exception being if it is metallic dust from metalworking but I'm assuming (there I go...) that this is conventional home/office dust so, yea, it's just ugly.

I just received a linear power supply. Hoping for something to use it with soon. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Pro bono Pono promo: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/11/neil-young-pono-future-music.html

Finished my KSA5 and am very pleased after a relativly short listening session. Board parts are standard from the BOM with extra attention paid to closely matching the parts. Goldpoint controls, Vampire RCA's, SUMR transformer. A big thank you to Kevin Gilmore for making this project possible! Me

Thanks for all the well wishes, gang. Loved all the art. Had a relatively quiet day, which was just fine after Thanksgiving festivities and company. Watched both the Bucs and Pats lose close ones, then quiet dinner with Becky.

FFF wings

Smoked turkey and a little extra smoke for the ham on Thanksgiving:

I'll keep posting an article every two years. Here's a great one about working at Radio Shack on Thanksgiving. http://www.sbnation.com/2014/11/26/7281129/radioshack-eulogy-stories "This is a consumer technology business that is built to work perfectly in the year 1975. The Internet comes around, and this, being a technology company, is expected to move on it aggressively and know what it's doing, except basically nobody really understood the Internet for a very long time. So they whiffed big a few times. Then the iPhone came around and rendered half the stuff RadioShack sold completely redundant. This company needed to become something radically different a decade ago. I just don't think it knows how to be anything else. It's like retracing the steps and doings of a drunk person: okay, here's where he keyed the cop car. Wait, why'd he do that? I don't know, but his pants are lying here, so this is before he stripped naked and tried to rob the library."