[palonso]

Dear Colleagues,

Thanks a lot to all of you who replied to my inquiry regarding Renovated Radios. I want to address some considerations message by message:

To Gary - Thank you so much for the suggestion on Mike Koste. I will await a little more to see if Chris will post any reply to my email and eventually I can refer to Mike according to your instructions.

To Paul - Thank you also for your offer to contact Julia and Marty Mc Call. In case it is necessary I will let you know.

To Arran - Yes, you are completely right. I really do not need spare knobs because my original knobs are working very well indeed. The idea was to purchase a spare set, because according to my reasoning and to the messages in our Phorum, chances are that finding these items in the future must become even more difficult. I have a complete set of vacuum tubes for my radio and I was fortunate to purchase two Dial Wheels from Radio Daze ( a tip from Gary !) because my dial has become brittle (there are small fractures in the Dial wheel) certainly due to the aging process. I appreciated most your considerations that the original outer ring of the dial bezel was black. When I received the radio from my father it already had that polished golden color. My father bought that Radio for my grand mother in 1938 in a trip to New York, after graduating from the Brazilian Navy Officials School. He brought the radio for her and, at that time, radio sets like this one were rarities in Brazil. Short before her passing away my grandmother told my father that the Radio should be given to me. Being an electronic engineer I carried out the best restoration I could in 1977.
Thank you very much also for your considerations. In case you can suggest some other places from which I could order the chassi items, I would be grateful.

Best Regards to all the colleagues,

Paulo Alonso