'39 Sky-Chief portable

[decojoe67]

This 1939 Sky Chief battery-only portable (model unknown) was found in a back room of a long-closed electronics repair shop in Moundridge, Kansas. The repairman did a labor-of-love full chassis restoration which included a repaired secondary winding on the oscillator coil, open primary winding in the speaker output transformer, and expertly winding an antenna coil, which was missing. The set now works like new. It's a primitive looking tweed-and-stripes portable with the simple tuner plate, and you just don't see Sky Chief radios much. I just had to get it and preserve it.
Oh, and the repairman made a booklet with every detail and pic of the chassis, which I received with the set.