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As others have noted, that radio looks almost like new after all the work you put into cleaning up the chassis; this is one of the cleanest Zenith chassis I have ever seen, in 40+ years of electronics experimenting.
Glad to know the set sounds good as well. Excellent sound fidelity was a hallmark of Zenith radios for many years, until the company went offshore some 30 years ago; those older sets (up to about the end of the '60s) always sound excellent when they are working as they should (I have two Zenith table sets, K731 and C845, that will run rings, as far as sound quality and RF sensitivity -- to say nothing of build quality -- goes, around any of the cheap plastic headphone stereos available today).
BTW, I noticed a segment of one of the tuning bands (150-400 kHz) on your set has a bracket around the range 200-250 kHz or thereabouts, marked "weather band." Was this the 1930s-'40s forerunner of today's 162.55 MHz, et al. FM weather radio service? If so, the National Weather Service (if such was even in existence in the 1930s, which I doubt) was very much ahead of its time, even to have an AM weather radio alert network.
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Jeff, WB8NHV
Collecting, restoring and enjoying vintage Zenith radios since 2002
Zenith. Gone, but not forgotten.
Last edited by Jeffhs; 10-22-2011 at 11:24 AM.
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