Zenith 8-5-463 black dial console. Didn't need; couldn't resist!

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My wife texted me last weekend that she saw this radio, but for whatever reason my "old" flip phone wouldn't take the media message with pictures. So I went on dusty, but shines under the dust. Tubes there; speaker there, and the dial is black. $50 firm was the price. I couldn't see how I could go wrong except for the guilt and pain felt of bringing something else into the house.

The interesting part is that the radio was found but never tried out due to a bad cord. I liked the sound of that myself. When it made it to my place the first thing I see is a section of maybe drop cord with a modern 3 prong replacement plug end. Hmmm. Never tried it out.... The older lady's story was that it needed rewiring. I thought it as layman's vernacular. But I have read some Internet posts on Zenith radios of this vintage having bad rubber insulation and some actually having to be rewired. I hope its not that bad when I pull the ultra dusty chassis. It looks from the top as if there is both cloth and rubber wire insulation and the cloth is nice; some of the rubber is nice, and some is gone like coming out of IF cans to grid caps.

The cabinet looks like it will come back to be beautiful. The slats over the speaker cloth are all good (read to be a problem). So it's the typical clean and cap deal I imagine. I may even get lucky and have the thing work as is. I have many table models of that era that work great as is. Being such a potentially nice piece, I want to at least go through the power supply with the darned 6X5 rectifRIER. The picture is just reference. Not mine.