04-18-2021, 10:05 PM
More interesting stuff folks - thanks for the contributions to the thread 
Not much time on the radio yet, but I dd complete all the dial disassembly required to fit a new belt, which arrived from "Quality Radio Belts". I haven't put it back together yet, as I want to give the tuning cap a really good clean off the chassis, and also clean up the chassis while it is out of the way. I do now have the gear mechansm properly freed up, and the antui backlash spring drives the cap all the way to unmeshed. Presumably friction in the belt system prevents this "auto-tune" feature once it is all back together.
Most attention was spent looking at the cabinet. I looked at available materials to make something to replace the missing part from the grill and found something suitable which was shaved down to the correct thickness. Since the pattern is symmetrical, I traced the corresponding area on the other side to the back surface of the repair piece, and carefully cut and sanded the shape. It is oversize now - more of the grill pattern than is actually missing while I decide how to integrate it with the original.
I then turned to something never done before - as fund, there was a piece of veneer missing from the left front area of the top. I found and shaved down some material with a suitable grain so that it was slightly thicker than the radio's veneer. I trimmed the broken area to straight edges, and cut the repair piece to match. This was glued in to place. Later I sanded the new piece level with the original surface. With just a little help to match the colour, this is going to look very good. The top is so scratched up that I will refinish it anyway, and I think the veneer repair will look pretty good for a first try. Pics later.
Still on the speaker hunt. I may go modern, add a single ended transformer, and sub the field coil with a 1000 ohm resistor of suitable rating. All this I would mount to the new speaker and configure wiring and a plug, so that an original speaker can be substituted when found.
Cheers
Ed
Not much time on the radio yet, but I dd complete all the dial disassembly required to fit a new belt, which arrived from "Quality Radio Belts". I haven't put it back together yet, as I want to give the tuning cap a really good clean off the chassis, and also clean up the chassis while it is out of the way. I do now have the gear mechansm properly freed up, and the antui backlash spring drives the cap all the way to unmeshed. Presumably friction in the belt system prevents this "auto-tune" feature once it is all back together.
Most attention was spent looking at the cabinet. I looked at available materials to make something to replace the missing part from the grill and found something suitable which was shaved down to the correct thickness. Since the pattern is symmetrical, I traced the corresponding area on the other side to the back surface of the repair piece, and carefully cut and sanded the shape. It is oversize now - more of the grill pattern than is actually missing while I decide how to integrate it with the original.
I then turned to something never done before - as fund, there was a piece of veneer missing from the left front area of the top. I found and shaved down some material with a suitable grain so that it was slightly thicker than the radio's veneer. I trimmed the broken area to straight edges, and cut the repair piece to match. This was glued in to place. Later I sanded the new piece level with the original surface. With just a little help to match the colour, this is going to look very good. The top is so scratched up that I will refinish it anyway, and I think the veneer repair will look pretty good for a first try. Pics later.
Still on the speaker hunt. I may go modern, add a single ended transformer, and sub the field coil with a 1000 ohm resistor of suitable rating. All this I would mount to the new speaker and configure wiring and a plug, so that an original speaker can be substituted when found.
Cheers
Ed
I don't hold with furniture that talks.
