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Originally Posted by leadlike
Just wanted to throw in my own .02:
If it were my set, I would seriously just leave it all as is. It appears to be unmolested with a decent (though slightly alligatored) finish. It has almost all of its original tubes for crying out loud! I would think it more prudent to preserve this set as "all original" as possible. Maybe find a HO tube that is an RCA from the right era, replace the horizontal coupling caps with what was originally in there, etc. Just to make it as stock as possible.
I just don't feel there is much to be gained from restoring such a rare set. I think the tuner would need to be modified to receive analog signals anyway. With less than 20 of these sets surviving-and all that are documented on the internet seem to have been heavily hacked up at some point; I would think it would be far more important to keep one of these in its 1939 splendor.
Think about it.
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I've already thought about it. On my original post I said I have no plans on electronically restoring this set. I also feel there is not much to be gained from making this set function again. I live close enough to the ETF museum to take a drive over to see one working if I really need to see one function. I am going to make the few repairs needed to the set, replace non-original parts with originals, and call it a day. I have restored sets for display, this will be a non-working original set for display.
I would very much like to find original capacitors to replace the replacements if anyone has them.