[AMRadio] Old Iron

[Ka9p at aol.com]

Seems the best place to ask, I hope.
 
I've got an old 32v that is a wreck, and clearly had been stored someplace  
where there was lots of humidty.
 
I figure the poor old girl had something seriously wrong to have been left  
the way she was, and she's clearly not restorable.
 
But the question is about the old iron.  Other than what may have been  her 
original demise are the odds reasonable that if I go to the hassle of  
recovering the transformers that they will be ok, or is protracted unfortunate,  
storage more likely than not to render that stuff unuseable?
 
And is there any process you go through under these circumstances to  
condition the hardware before you start to test it under load?
 
Thanks for your thoughts.
 
Scott