It was a very nice restoration project. The radio was in a really bad condition, as you can see in the photo below. Lots of woodworking on the cabinet that was completely falling apart. It was necessary to make reproductions of the botton and the back and glue every cabinet part back together. The inlay was broken and was replaced by a new one, of the same design, sold by Woodcraft under Inlay Border #015 1/4" 2 pcs #149615. Then the old cabinet finish was stripped with a citrus base remover, sanded with 220, 320 grid sand paper, and 0000 steel wool, and refinished with one layer of toner and about 6 layers of satin lacquer by Mohawk.

 The chassis was pretty dirty and greasy with lots of rust spots. Speaker had a open 1200Ω field coil and a open output transformer. First, the chassis was throughout cleaned with a kitchen cleaning spray and a piece of cloth. Then it was wire brushed to start removing the rust spots and pressured air cleaned. A phosphoric acid based product was used to remove the heavier rust. Then it was wire brushed again with a finer carbon wire dremel cone brush and pressured air cleaned again to get rid of loosen bristles that may become a future problem. Once totally cleaned, all capacitors and many out of specification resistors were replaced. The speaker was temporarily replace buy a permanent magnet one with the same size, until I find a original replacement. A 400Ω choke and a 800Ω power resistor is in the place of the field coil. I did not increase the value of the electrolytic capacitor, since the set worked very well without any hum. Also the 2A3 tube was replaced by a new one. Photos of all restoration process is available at the radio page.

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