Used Total Gym Purchase - Rehab, Maintenance, & Upgrades

So question for group... I just bought a used Total Gym 1900 model for $30. It's a 7/2015 build date machine and has some use on it. It's in decent shape but needs maintenance/cleanup, a new cable replacement and installation, and some rust cleanup on the chrome parts and pins. This was a middle-of-the-road model when built (as best I can tell.) It has a decent mid-tier weight limit of 350 lbs. (more than the 250-275 lb. limits on the base tier models but not the 400 - 450 lb. limit of the heavier duty XLS or FIT models.) It also has the 12-tiered tower incline settings like the later FIT models.

In addition to the maintenance stuff, I am going to upgrade it with some key additions, including:

Custom Squat Platform Build: I am going to build a custom squat platform out of wood and heavy gauge steel bars that will be bulletproof and include bar inserts that will never bend from heavy use (this 1900 model came stock with the pilates bar and no squat base attachment, so I definitely need a squat base anyways.)
Adding chrome aluminum handles (to replace the stock TG foam and fabric handles)
Adding hammock/rock climbing bearing swivels at handle connections to keep new cable from getting twisted in the pulley system

Question for Group:

Is anyone interested in seeing a how-to vid on TG maintenance tasks and rehab and how-to on the upgrades? (if so, I will video-document these tasks to share, if that is OK.)

Question for

@Mike D

Would it be OK to link to YT vids for the above here ? (don't want to do anything that is against the rules here, so figured I'd better ask before linking to external videos...)

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Used Total Gym Purchase - Rehab, Maintenance, & Upgrades