[FStephenMasek]

That Ace chrome paint certainly worked well on this chassis:

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Yes, I dismantled the tuning gang capacitor to paint the housing.
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I replaced all of the resistors and all except the mica capacitors. Some of the Philco capacitor blocks had been damaged by the hack who had previously worked on it, so I replaced them with terminal strips:
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This chassis has a bottom, as it sits on two horizontal boards, not a shelf
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