The first step when refurbishing a Beta is to open it up and carefully use compressed air to remove, dust, lint and tape shards from the inside. The upper panel (or cabinet), faceplate, lower panel and other appearance items are removed, inspected and cleaned or repaired. At this point would come the steps we have explored up to now but we are going to proceed as if all that was needed with unit was external cleaning and renewing. So after the Beta assembly is set aside what we have left is the appearance parts. How we deal with the various methods of cleaning, repairing and renewing is what this section is about so let's move on now to the those steps. To go to the next page here. To go back to the previous page click here. ©Misterßetamax go to homepage