[PhilcoPhan1936]

Slowly chipping away at it. I had noticed that Cap 22 (a bakelite block) had been removed, and 2 black bumblebees put in its place. I knew someone who had a spare chassis with the block number I needed, so I bought it. I was in the process of installing it, when I noticed a coil of thin wire hanging down behind one of the component mounting boards.   . I traced the wire, and discovered it was from the antenna coil transformer assembly. The part that is up inside the core.  
I carefully fished it out, and removed the assembly. Miraculously, the wires were still intact, and measured 38ohms.

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I had to take a break for a couple days due to other work, and came back to it the other night, and by that time had figured out a battle plan.
I had to figure out how to get the core out, so I could reattach the wayward spool of wire. That done, I carefully wound the wire back on the small spool, and used melted wax from a candle to secure the wire.

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Once I got the wire re-wound back on the small coil, I also had to wind some back onto the main core. I also secured that with some wax.

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Then it was time to re-mount the core back inside.

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And finally, re-install the coil assembly.

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