the Bendix has landed...a little more cosmetically challenged than i had hoped,it's actually quite filthy but it should clean up to look much better than this
the chassis is worse and will take some work to clean up it looks only a little grubby from the front...
it's much worse inside due to the carrying handle on the top of the cabinet also serving as a rather large vent...if you look at the "deck" of the chassis...it should be the same color as the silver base plate!
the cleanup aside...it has a few issues,the dial light is burnt out,but it's wired across the ac line not in series with anything...so until i replace it,its just a cosmetic issue really....when i first peered down though the vent in the top i spied some "foreign matter" in the speaker frame...these turned out to be two very old wads of toilet tissue wedged between the speaker cone and the frame...i expected to find a torn cone.but the cone is ok...since it had been tested tho it was against my better judgment...i plugged it in...it does work,no magic smoke and no hum whatsoever...however the reason for the toilet paper immediately became obvious...tho it appears intact,the speaker has a nasty metallic rattle of some type at anything above a whisper...if i can't figure it out,i guess a modern 4 ohm 4x6 auto speaker should fit in the available space with a bracket of some type i'll need to fab up to hold it...anyway here's to the start..of something
