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Originally Posted by Kevin Kuehn
I'm not saying it's a bad thing to polish one up, I'm just not too keen on it being an historically accurate process. Probably the only person to have ever see that chassis so shinny, was the factory worker that pulled it from the plating tank.  |
Correct. These were appliances made on assembly lines. The factories did not employ squadrons of elves with polishing rags. I have polished a few chassis in my day, but only because it seemed fun at the time and I had nothing better to do.
We have a house full of antique radios & TVs, and I have never, ever pulled the back cover off a set to show someone a shiny chassis.
Phil Nelson
Phil's Old Radios
http://antiqueradio.org/index.html