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I've worked on many old radios that had the old plastic and or rubber power cords from the 1950s that had green goo leaked out of the prongs of the plug ends and even original cords on some of the old floor lamps from the 1940s.
I also have a mid 1950s Westinghouse Radio that the walnut Bakelite Cabinet and Black Bakelite Chassis and original rubber cord are in mint condition.
But the tuning knob which is supposed to be see through plastic (as the stations you are tuning in are seen through the knob) is all fogged up because of the plastic oxidizing.
The fog on the plastic tuning knob will clean off with regular soap and water, which makes the knob see through again but then about 2 or 3 months later the fog on the tuning knob is back.
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