[Michael Dennis]

Broken all over or broken in pieces, just pieces of broken radio, or broken into pieces of radio all broke up from pieces broken off piecemeal? (Bear with me guys, won't you? I just survived an MRSA infection which could've 86'd me, according to the local medical oracles, and I've just paid out what I hope is the last of $5300 in medical bills. HIC!)

I bought a Zenith 6S362 for $20 with a badly broken dial glass, dial itself in very good condition, and faded ripped grillecloth, but all the knobs were present, making it worth the price, to me, for the knobs themselves. Chassis is clean and the speaker. My Zenith 7S240 needed the two "Pinched" lower knobs and one on the top of the triangular bezel. I have a 7S261 which needs two pinched lowers, and the "hat" upper, so I could outfit the '261 at the expense of the '240, which lacks the speaker. Do missing parts constutute the "broken" aspect of a radio in our definition? Both the '240 and '261 came into my possesion with only (1) correct knob, (1) of the "pinched" ones. Should I just go back to my 7&7 & fail to forget not remembering to soak my head overnight?

Dialog from episode of Gilligan's Island:

Skipper: "How did the radio get broke?"

Gilligan: "I don't know, skipper, it's just one of those things!"

Skipper: "One of what things??!!!"

Gilligan: "One of those broken radio things?"