the zeners are fine, I did not remove them, the problem was that when I screwed them in, one of them twisted slightly to touch the chassis, they did this weird shit on my zeners where its 2 wires with 2 pieces of heat shrink that open up, imagine a knight plate mail armor without elbow protectors (dunno why), so the corner joint is exposed and it touched the chassis, sinking the supply down.
I need to replace 2x shielded wire (coincidentally the ones in your picture), from the VCO to the pins. I am just waiting on pins and coaxial cable so I don't hard solder them to the pin. My replacement board had solder on the High-output, so the 8.2 ohm resistor is soldered from the BNC to the board, but that is the only solder joint I made, I need to replace the terminal by desoldering one from the other PCB.
The other problem I have is that i forgot to put one of the brackets in.. so I need to take it apart again to put in the bracket that goes over the right side potentiometers/switches.. and I still need to figure out which car body panel screw holder thing is going to work for me. So I need to get coaxial cable with the correct AWG inside for my 4 indent crimp tool terminals, make those 2 wires, and take it apart again so I can add the bracket.
Also, I need to figure out how to get the neon bulb into position, because the holder broke, and I need to replace the neon, since its just a live wire dangling right now, the crappy plastic clip snapped and got lost and the neon had a leg snapped off on the tube.. thankfully I have alot of neons at least, so maybe I will put a blue one in lol. And the 2x plastic stand offs I put into it are the wrong size, because it has the bracket that is missing I will need to trim those on my proxxon milling machine.
And I need a whole bunch of those
bent conical star washers. Any idea on that, the ones that fit under the chamfeurs?
Maybe pictures in a while because I will probobly make up the stripped shielded cables and find the body panel screw holder but I don't want to take it apart AGAIN until I cool off mentally. I feel like super relaxed because I know its working save for some mechanical BS but dealing with that right now is too irritating.
I also need a new neon bulb holder for my harrison lab power supply, the one they had is 2x bifurated terminals that solder to the tube which is stuck into a whiter diffuser.
so those finished pictures are a long way off unfortunately..
So what would help is
1) neon bulb holder clip idea
2) beveled star washers
3) body panel holder ( I think I figured it out but I need to be sure so it does not turn into a frustrating ebay repurchase
4) having someone take it apart for me and install the bracket because its just too much back and forth
5) replacing the PCB pin contaminated with solder with a fresh one and making a 8.2 ohm resistor with a crimp on it going to the front panel
6) adding a bit of grease between those 4x transistors and the body frame, and greasing the zeners (I will do this at the last point because I don't want to take it apart then deal with a greasy chassis)
7) some replacement knobs
replacement feet, I think I have some feet but likely I will just bolt on 4x rubber feet with the rubber glued to a washer, maybe I will pick those up at home depot tomorrow, I need only like 50x of them because my test equipment is sliding around on the racks
9) mental cool down time, so I don't break it when I take it apart again (less rough with wires)
waiting for someone to list a brand new one on ebay for 20$ to make me feel like an idiot
But I know this is like writing a paper, you need to take a break eventually and look over your work at a later time, trying to get this 'out the door' is gonna screw it up