Damp weather today: no lacquer work possible, so on to the knobs. The radio came with only one original knob, shown at the right in the first picture. The other three knobs were the closest that Mike Koste had out of the thousands and thousands he brought to the Kutztown radio meet earlier this month. These knobs had stamped legends on them, a little hard to see in the picture, the originals did not. In the picture I have already sanded off the legend and the whole top of one of the knobs. I did the same with the other two and then chucked a piece of 1/4 dowel in the drill, pushed on a knob, and held a rag with auto polishing compound against it while spinning the knob. I was careful not to go too fast for fear of overheating the plastic. When they were smooth I spun them in another rag with brass polish. Then the fluted sides got treatment with a cotton buffing disk in the drill.
