[Eliot Ness]

Art, Julie (Radiopup) brought me a set of the original wood knobs.  Later I'll update that picture to one with the correct knobs on the radio.  And yes, despite the worn areas on the cabinet that grille cloth is perfect.  The only other grille cloths I've seen hold up as well are some of the Atwater Kents.


Mike, the chassis was made by RCA and is the same chassis used in their huge R-74 tombstone.  Which is good news for me since RCA service documentation is much better than Riders.  In fact, luckily for us, there is now a source to download the RCA service notes and data:

https://www.americanradiohistory.com/RCA...ervice.htm

This is by far one of the heaviest table radios I own, except for my dual chassis Pilot.  A.K. makes a large tombstone model 447, but those are pretty hard to find, and then you have that huge RCA R-74 tombstone that uses the same chassis and I'm sure is just as heavy! 

Anyway Mike, when G.E. made their reproduction cathedral (G.E. 7-4100JA) they modeled it after this radio.  From what I hear those are the one of best performing reproductions made, but I've yet to pick one up.