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Definitely agree on taking good care of that handle. I've heard that an intact handle alone is worth more than a T/O with everything intact but the handle. I own one with a broken handle. An uncle gave his Royal 1000 (after he bought himself a 7000) to my older brother. He went to college, and a drinking buddy in his dorm room used the radio as a makeshift seat. The dial cord got broken too. He abandoned the radio in the basement and I restrung the cord later.
Nice thing about these, with with their push-pull output circuits and point-contact transistors, is that a set of alkalines will seem to last forever in one of these radios.
Sad things are that the very same transistors have a "whisker syndrome" that cause them to fail in about 60 years - right about now. I also have found that my Royal 1000 is far more susceptible to RF overload on shortwave than my tube T/O.
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