[Jeffhs]

I agree with the others who said your console will sound great once restored. I once had a Magnavox AM/FM tuner/amp chassis which I bought at a second-hand store near my former residence. Chassis only, no speaker or cabinet. I hooked it up to an old speaker I had laying around the workshop at the time (don't remember the workaround I did to bypass the field coil), put a length of wire on the FM antenna terminal and fired it up. Worked like a champ. Those old Magnavox sets were great, built to last--like Zeniths. This chassis was likely from a console like yours, with a record changer and even a position on the function switch, IIRC, for a TV (modern FM band as well), so my unit was probably part of a three-way entertainment center circa 1948-1950 when it was new.

BTW, my best guess is your set's tuner is set up for the pre-war 42-50 MHz FM band (which would date it pre-1948), though I could be wrong. I agree with Nolan; the pictures are too small, even when supersized, to show clearly the calibration markings on the dial scale. I do know the version of this chassis with the horizontal slide-rule dial tunes the modern 88-108 MHz FM band, however, so those chassis are postwar sets. If yours has the prewar FM band, it may be possible to find a converter that will take signals from 88-108 MHz range and downconvert them to a frequency in the old band, doing all station tuning at the converter, not unlike the UHF television converters of the '50s-'60s. Regency once marketed what it called an "FM Televerter" in the '50s that downconverted the modern FM band to a TV channel; this unit worked on the same principle as the converters I mentioned for downconversion of 88-108 MHz FM to the older prewar band.