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1 remove finger card and wire
2 remove wires



1 peripheral
2 peripheral
3 peripheral
4 peripheral
5 midgrade
6 peripheral

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Given the grade on 5 I’d crack open r229 and pull the metal out. It’s likely copper or nickel but may be silver or silveride.
j201 and j202 may also have a nice treat if you can get in them.

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Will do. Do you think the knobs are just brass on j201 and 202?

Likely brass. That’s an entry level deck. The only company I know of the era that used gold trim at the low levels was Panasonic/Matsushita.
Onkyo and Pioneer had some high end super trim packages but few and far between. And the gold trim is jewellery grade. All 1/10 mil. On a high silver bronze.

The CH series of face boards were used by many manufacturers but mostly Yamaha and Mitsubishi. Pioneer and Onkyo used a Panasonic face board. Both those series (Premiere HV and K gold, respectively) started in the low $8k to $10k range and if you stripped just the bling you’d get about half an ounce of gold. Kind of stupid when a whole dead CD player of those lines can fetch at least close to a grand.

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Interesting. Thank you