07-01-2013, 12:24 PM
Congats on you your "new" set
! My 40-150 looked about the same when I started on it, so yours should look terrific when done! The pushbuttons and rubber chassis parts are available through "Renovated Radios", there is a link to them on this site. Also, for the paint for the dial bezel, I used Rustoleum "Gold Rush" metallic. I found it was a close match to the original. Apart from the bad wires, the chassis is pretty straight forward. I will pass this on, although maybe the 40-155 won't have this, I had one octal tube socket in my set that was made out of some kind of fiber board like material. Be very careful with this!! I accidentally broke a contact out of it while trying to unsolder a wire. I was able to carefully epoxy it back into the socket and works fine, but it was a frustrating headache at the time
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Kevin
! My 40-150 looked about the same when I started on it, so yours should look terrific when done! The pushbuttons and rubber chassis parts are available through "Renovated Radios", there is a link to them on this site. Also, for the paint for the dial bezel, I used Rustoleum "Gold Rush" metallic. I found it was a close match to the original. Apart from the bad wires, the chassis is pretty straight forward. I will pass this on, although maybe the 40-155 won't have this, I had one octal tube socket in my set that was made out of some kind of fiber board like material. Be very careful with this!! I accidentally broke a contact out of it while trying to unsolder a wire. I was able to carefully epoxy it back into the socket and works fine, but it was a frustrating headache at the time! Kevin
