This picture shows
the new knobs. Click this picture to expand.
This radio was owned by a fellow
ham. He had it in his family as a boy. This Zenith has six tubes, it
is transformer less and has four tone buttons. This unit did not receive
prior to restoration.
This page is a
work-in-progress. I have to add final pictures.
New Dial cover and grill cloth.
Stripped,
stained and lacquered.
Escutcheons
wire brushed and sprayed.
Chassis
fully restored.
I am on the hunt for replacement knobs.
There
are some rough spots on the cabinet.
Dial
scale cover shrunken, yellowed and warped. Some on has inked a line
on this plastic bezel
Model stamp.
Some
one has replaced the electrolytic cap and tied it with some old cloth.
This
oscillator coil is damaged and open.
You
realize these are made with Unobtainium.
The surgery begins. Locate the break is first. several strands are
broken.
After
careful teasing and unwrapping the coil to the break a jumper is made up.
The
jumper makes the broken coil continuity. It is a good thing that I
am near sighted!