It's just an old radio thing....

[Old1625]

Originally Posted by Aage

Pics will be appreciated!

Most chassis clean up pretty well with just Naval Jelly, but sometimes you have to strip it right down and bead-blast it. Whatever you do, don't forget to seal it. Once did one up real nice, thought wax would keep the air away enough to avoid rust, discovered I was wrong.

Dialstring needs some resin on it, does it?

Thanks for the tips.

The dial drive does not rely on traction, it is a more positive action. The cord is made of multistrand steel wire--like picture wire or the core of a bicycle brake cable. It clips to the dial drum at the middle of its length, and the free ends are wrapped around a quarter turn of the drum--front and back and spooled around threaded barrels fitted on the tuning shaft, fore and aft. One pays while the other receives as the shaft is turned.

It was broken when I got the set, and I did a half-baked repair at the time to get it going.