I installed the crt this morining and did some tweeking on the tuner and now we have a working set. Picture is not that great. A better crt would help so I dont have to drive the video so hard to get a picture, but it's not too bad, if you stand far enough away. Detail is not so great, but then this set has a minimum amount of tubes and the circuits have very few components.
I started the process of re-finishing the cabinet today. That will take most of next week. When the cabinet is ready I will reassemble the complete set and take some final photos to post here. I need to have a new safety glass made, because the putz that I am, I broke the original getting it out of the cabinet
I think the knobs on the doors are not original. The current set of 4 knobs has an antique copper finish and the rest of the metal parts on this set are antique brass. Also there are marks on the wood behind the knobs that suggest that there may have been some metal rosettes against the door behind the knobs. I dont have a photo of the set when new so I don't know what kind of knobs are suposed to be on the doors. In any event I will get a new set of antique brass knobs so they match the rest of the hardware.
So here are 2 photos of the chassis with the big 24 inch tube operating. My machine shop is in the background.