Thanks for the nice comments
Slowly working on refurbishing the cabinet - trying to remove 59 years of dust dirt grime old wax paint splatter etc is time consuming. The front of the set, mask if you will, behind the 1/2 doors really cleaned up nicely. Thankfully all of the gold decal work around the knobs and on the safety glass, and on the front of the doors is 100% intact. The knobs are also 100% intact and should easily polish to as new. My goal is to get the cabinet as clean as possible and try to keep and refurbish the original reddish mahogany color, keeping it as original as possible.
Now the bad news. The 16AP4A tube is dead. No emission and a short on heater and cathode. Don't know where the heck I'll find a replacement. Maybe I'll have to see about a rebuild. Someone has screwed around with the set before I got it. The chassis is loose in the cabinet, and there are ancient splices to the wiring coming from the yoke. The set looks complete excepting the screws to secure the chassis to the cabinet. My tube tester is in storage so I'll have to wait a bit to check those. As soon as the weather breaks, we are suffering through a hellacious ice storm right now, I plan on starting on the chassis and electronics.
I have been documenting the progress with the digital camera and plan to post the project when completed.
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