I'm in shock--pulled a National HRO-60 from a snow-filled dumpster

[John in MA]

Doing my morning town dump browsing today. In the scrap dumpster I noticed the corner of a gray equipment cabinet poking out of the snow filling. I risked life and limb to climb in and discovered it was a gigantic radio receiver of some quality. Hefted the monster out and nearly killed myself in the process. As I'm sitting there looking at it, I noticed there were these little matching internal parts scattered all over the dumpster, around the shifting piles of crushed appliances and scrap iron in the ice. So I dove back it and started shoveling. And after all that effort...

I'm now the proud owner of a National HRO-Sixty in excellent physical condition. Also have A,B,C,D,E,F, plus AD and AC tuning coil packs and scales, a Select-O-Ject external tuner, and an external Radio Shack receiver speaker! How's that for a crazy score? Right now I'm thawing everything out and drying the coils out on the furnace.

I'm not very familiar with high-end HAM stuff, but I gather this is quite an impressive machine. The thing that really burns me is that the asshole (if you'll forgive my language) of a former owner threw it 6' down into a scrap dumpster. It's a testament to National's build quality that only the bottom of the case is pushed in, along with a couple of crushed external tuning coils. Given the condition of everything it must have been carefully stored for decades, and the coils probably were kept in their original boxes (which I couldn't find.)

Any good resources online for this sort of thing? I'd like to rehab it and get her running, maybe finally replace my old Army AN/GRR-5 clunker.