There appears to be
something in the tuner position, but I won't know for sure what it is until I get to take a closer look.
Had a really nice long talk with Chuck A. last night and he said that in his experience most prewar sets had been converted to the postwar standard, which would make sense. I got the impression that he was talking about more than just tweaking the horizontal oscillator frequency, but maybe not. He also said that (again, in his experience) many prewar sets had new tuners installed at some point soon after the war.
Carl: I promise to document the daylights out of anything done on this set. This set is even more significant than my TRK-120, which is much more of a basket case. I'm currently in the middle of working on a nothing-special radio for a neighbor and I take a lot of pictures even of something like that:
http://sdrv.ms/1j3oR0X.
-- Dave