Not sure if this one actually saw any mice. No telltale smell or nesting material found. Think it was just in a damp location for many years.
Already wire brushed a couple spots by hand, and it seems to clean up reasonably well. Before getting too aggressive over a larger area, I will want to figure out some kind of dust collection system, as I suspect there is cadmium plating in and under that rust.
All but 3 of the tubes were original RCA Victor, including the 6BG6. Flyback looks good, as does the yoke. Underside of chassis looks completely original, with no signs of a soldering iron touching it since it rolled off the assembly line.
Set is starting to look like a keeper, and "daily driver" is pretty much where I want to go with it. It is never going to merit a "concours grade restoration", but it certainly looks like it could be made to work again.
Time to start making up a list of caps to be replaced, and make some ohmmeter checks of the flyback, yoke, and that big ugly "candohm" resistor on the back of the chassis.