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A little update, I did manage to get it to pull in some AM Stations but they were very quiet, the volume control had to be turned up full blast to even hear anything almost as if there was something wrong with the audio section.
I know I need to definitely replace all of the capacitors in this radio including the bakelite blocks but i just wanted to see if I could get it to do anything as it was without changing anything out to get kind of a baseline of how this thing was performing to see how much work this thing was going to need besides the capacitors needing changed.
Which its looking like its going to need a complete overhaul beyond the capacitors being changed, its going to also need a complete realignment, and the speaker is going to need repair (it has a couple of minor tears in it), I'm going to need to replace the grille cloth (someone destroyed the original grille cloth at some point in time and replaced it with an old cut up pillow case) which I do have some extra grille cloth left over from when I redid my old U. S. Gloritone Cathedral Radio that is just the right amount to redo the grille cloth on this radio with.
I'm also going to need to refinish the cabinet on this thing as well as the original finish is looking a little tired on this thing.
Which I'm going to try a new refinishing technique I learned on a youtube video of an older lady that restores old radios including the cabinets, where basically you take lacquer thinner and rub it over the original finish to reblend the finish (this is especially effective if the original finish has crazed over the years or had minor water, heat or sun damage).
Then put a couple coats of stain ontop of it with some light sanding with 220 grit sandpaper in between coats and then a coat of lacquer or polyeurathane to finish it off.
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