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OK so I picked up the radio this past friday, and the unit is in pretty good shape yet.
The only issues I could find with the unit was that the previous owner replaced the original cord recently with a modern mid 2000s power cord (where its has the one piece sheathing with the black and white conductors running inside of it) on the radio.
I think they also at the same time removed the original record changer (which had a flipover Astatic crystal cartridge) and scrapped it out and installed in its place a late model (between 1957-1959) V-M 900 series ceramic cartridged 4 speed record changer that really wasn't much better than the original as the replacement record player also didn't have the standard 1/2" cartridge mount holes on it and the cartridge on it was just glued into the tone arm at the factory.
But then the cartridge broke off the tone arm so now the changer is no good unless I glue the cartridge back into place (the cartridge is a Sonotone 2T ceramic cartridge that still works actually just broken loose of the tone arm.)
Another interesting observation I made about this unit is that it plays hum free with the original Mallory Power Supply Capacitor can intact yet and almost every single backlight bulb for the tuner dial was burned out except for one and the pilot bulbs were type #44 bayonet bulbs which look just like type #47 bulbs but I'm not really sure what the difference is between a type #44 and a type #47 bulb is but there must of been some sort of difference otherwise this radio would of had type #47s in it rather than type #44s in it.
The other thing I noticed is that the tuning dial pointer on this radio is backlit as well and has 2 light sockets in it one on top and one on the bottom and they have two glass windows cut into the pointer that is painted black and the top one lights up the pointer for the FM Band and the bottom one lights up for the AM band and it lights up the respective pointer light for whichever band the radio is set to on the band/mode switch, but for some reason or another someone at some point in time cut the wire lead that powered the AM tuning dial pointer light socket so only the FM dial pointer light socket worked and not the AM one, which seems kind of bizarre that someone would do that.
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