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targeteye · #16 08-20-2007, 01:00 PM

I agree ... we seem to have lost our since of style. Keep in mind back then even low end was dang expensive as you already pointed out!

Reading your post and the way you write about this Radio I think its to late for you. You've got the bug. When you get done with this one you'll be think'. "wouldn't it be nice to have one of those tabe top sets as well? ... etc ..etc"

Steve

similost · #17 08-20-2007, 01:16 PM

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Originally Posted by targeteye

Reading your post and the way you write about this Radio I think its to late for you. You've got the bug. When you get done with this one you'll be think'. "wouldn't it be nice to have one of those tabe top sets as well? ... etc ..etc"

Steve

ROTF... I think it's way too late, because I was thinking about that a little while ago when I was looking at some pages that had this radio on it... I thought "hhhmm.. it needs a little sister sitting in there beside it to keep it company"... oh god.. just please don't tell my wife...

At least though this time, she's the one that wanted gear... but it just makes no sense to me how she doesn't care if it works or not...

I bet once I get it repaired and she sees the eye and the dial all lit up, I find a nice little AM transmitter to feed it some old radio show, she'll give me a nice big kiss for fixing it up, and understand my obsession with wanting it to work again. It would ad so much character to her room on a nice cold December night with the fireplace going

similost · #18 08-20-2007, 08:30 PM

Well.. .I just spent 2 and a half hours with a bucket of Murphy's, scrubbing this thing and man does it look a lot better.. I'd say I took off at least 30 years of tar and nicotine off it...

gonna try finding some good bee's wax, or pure carnuba.. and I have a feeling it will look really great.. need to try a little brown shoe polish or a brown crayon in a couple of the scratches on the darker wood...

I tell ya though, after all the rubbing and scrubbing tonight, I have no idea how I'm gonna last trying to get it waxed.. I know that's gonna be twice the work... But well worth it!