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Philco 16X restoration
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Well, Ron, I cut it open yesterday and soaked it in mineral spirit overnight. I was hoping it would dissolve that wax.
It did soften it but dissolve it did not.
So I used various stuff to clean the wax out of the can and an Exacto knife to clean paper and wax from the bottom.

The results are above. First I cut at the upper depression boundary, where it expands to the rest of the can.
The thought behind it being, that I could take the can, sand it a little so the narrowing at the bottom that used to be that upper boundary where I cut will widen and the bottom cylinder will just go in, at which point it could be glued.
It will look like this (the cap has not yet been stuffed)

   

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Philco 16X restoration - by morzh - 10-02-2021, 06:15 PM
RE: Philco 16X restoration - by Radioroslyn - 10-02-2021, 10:48 PM
RE: Philco 16X restoration - by morzh - 10-02-2021, 10:59 PM
RE: Philco 16X restoration - by Ron Ramirez - 10-02-2021, 11:26 PM
RE: Philco 16X restoration - by Radioroslyn - 10-03-2021, 07:22 AM
RE: Philco 16X restoration - by morzh - 10-04-2021, 02:48 PM
RE: Philco 16X restoration - by morzh - 10-10-2021, 07:11 PM
RE: Philco 16X restoration - by RodB - 10-11-2021, 09:25 AM
RE: Philco 16X restoration - by Ron Ramirez - 10-11-2021, 09:32 AM
RE: Philco 16X restoration - by Ron Ramirez - 10-12-2021, 06:58 PM
RE: Philco 16X restoration - by mikethedruid - 10-13-2021, 12:02 AM
RE: Philco 16X restoration - by morzh - 10-19-2021, 06:16 PM
RE: Philco 16X restoration - by morzh - 10-25-2021, 10:15 PM
RE: Philco 16X restoration - by Ron Ramirez - 10-26-2021, 06:18 AM
RE: Philco 16X restoration - by morzh - 10-26-2021, 01:06 PM
RE: Philco 16X restoration - by morzh - 10-30-2021, 10:49 PM
RE: Philco 16X restoration - by morzh - 10-31-2021, 04:42 PM
RE: Philco 16X restoration - by morzh - 10-31-2021, 04:52 PM
RE: Philco 16X restoration - by David - 11-01-2021, 09:23 AM
RE: Philco 16X restoration - by morzh - 11-06-2021, 07:20 PM
RE: Philco 16X restoration - by Brad Winder - 11-06-2021, 08:45 PM
RE: Philco 16X restoration - by morzh - 11-06-2021, 09:51 PM
RE: Philco 16X restoration - by morzh - 11-12-2021, 09:05 PM
RE: Philco 16X restoration - by morzh - 11-14-2021, 03:23 PM
RE: Philco 16X restoration - by morzh - 11-17-2021, 12:00 AM
RE: Philco 16X restoration - by morzh - 11-18-2021, 12:31 AM
RE: Philco 16X restoration - by morzh - 11-21-2021, 11:00 PM
RE: Philco 16X restoration - by Brad Winder - 11-22-2021, 12:39 AM
RE: Philco 16X restoration - by mikethedruid - 11-22-2021, 05:29 AM
RE: Philco 16X restoration - by Ron Ramirez - 11-22-2021, 09:13 AM
RE: Philco 16X restoration - by morzh - 11-22-2021, 12:39 PM
RE: Philco 16X restoration - by morzh - 11-22-2021, 10:57 PM
RE: Philco 16X restoration - by morzh - 11-26-2021, 11:46 PM
RE: Philco 16X restoration - by morzh - 11-27-2021, 05:07 PM
RE: Philco 16X restoration - by morzh - 11-28-2021, 09:30 PM
RE: Philco 16X restoration - by Simon Wa3uay - 11-29-2021, 01:24 PM
RE: Philco 16X restoration - by morzh - 11-29-2021, 02:11 PM
RE: Philco 16X restoration - by morzh - 11-30-2021, 04:56 PM
RE: Philco 16X restoration - by morzh - 12-04-2021, 03:41 PM
RE: Philco 16X restoration - by morzh - 12-05-2021, 09:52 PM
RE: Philco 16X restoration - by morzh - 12-08-2021, 09:30 PM
RE: Philco 16X restoration - by morzh - 12-09-2021, 08:05 PM
RE: Philco 16X restoration - by morzh - 01-01-2022, 05:18 PM
RE: Philco 16X restoration - by Radioroslyn - 01-01-2022, 10:18 PM
RE: Philco 16X restoration - by morzh - 01-01-2022, 11:10 PM



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