A'right... Welcome to 3+ posts of me talking to myself
Anyhoo... just finishing up the underside of the cabinet lid. There were some large gaps in the veneer... Used an old trick I learned from my dad- take fine sawdust, mix with wood glue to make a fairly dry paste and _really_ _work_ it in to the splits. If you use sawdust from the same wood you're filling, then it matches the colour when you varnish it... just need to be careful to get rid of all excess or you'll have glue spots under the varnish.
Another question- Is it normal for the resistors to the radio tubes to get hot? I've got 2W jobbies in there now, (as on the schematic) and they get pretty warm... you can touch it for a few seconds but any more starts getting pretty uncomfortable.
Finally- did an adjustment on the trimmer for maximum reception-How long are those screws? it feels like it's about to fall out, so I backed it off a turn and left it at that.