Both these were originally wood, just scratched up a bit. Well I'm slowly working up to refinishing my Hoffman, so I guess this will be second. The one set was missing the flyback transformer, and some other stuff, but both sets have good 7JP4s.
So I took the one out of the flybackless set, spent an hour or so cleaning melted gasket off the front of the tube, and put it in the other moto I fixed a few months ago, and took out that really weak one that was in there. For a while I had 3 7JP4s all lined up in a row, it was quite a sight. The other set looks entirely repairable. I haven't checked them yet, but I'm hoping for at least one good ballast tube between the two sets. If I can get 2 working sets out of what started as 3 broken ones that seems pretty good.
I got some other stuff too, he had a box full of stuff: about 30 sams folders, including a 1969 index volume, and some factory service manuals as well: most of RCA CTC 7 through CTC 21, and Zenith 1957 and 1960, as well as several packard-bell manuals. I also picked up an old RCA color bar generator.
He also had several large boxes of tubes (new and used), and a few old table radios, but I didn't have any more money on me. Although, I'm thinking about e-mailing him back and asking about those tubes.
Anyway, these are copper plated chassis, unlike my other one, it should look nice after I clean it up.