01-06-2020, 08:06 PM
Now that the Olympic is finished, I am starting to work on the RCA 5Q55. If you remember, this is the radio which I posted a reply about in the thread complaining of bad shipping/packing problems when you buy from eBay sellers. This was, by far, the worst disaster I have had that way. Here is a picture of how the radio arrived...
[Image: https://66.media.tumblr.com/450c88caa15e...1_1280.jpg]
Today I pulled the chassis and dial assembly out of the bakelite case. I had carefully combed through the packing material which was around the radio, and the box it was in for fragments of the broken cabinet, and found almost all of it except for those bits which were too tiny to find. I put them in a plastic sandwich bag which I taped to the radio so they wouldn't get lost. Today I carefully put them back into place. It was a lot like assembling a three dimensional jig saw puzzle. I used Loctite GO2 Gel for the glue. It dries to the point I could leave things in place fast enough to work well in this instance. It is now pretty well dried, and well on its way to being finished. I need to do a tiny bit of patching using Bondo to fill the little missing area, and what there is of tiny cracks between the pieces, then sand, and touch up paint with some poly based paint which I will mix to match. Since the cabinet is that old swirled, dark brown RCA and some others used, it won't be too difficult. Then I'll give it a coat of semi gloss poly and it will look acceptable. Here's what it looks like so far...
[Image: https://66.media.tumblr.com/fc0f8cf1b0b9...e397e6.jpg]
[Image: https://66.media.tumblr.com/450c88caa15e...1_1280.jpg]
Today I pulled the chassis and dial assembly out of the bakelite case. I had carefully combed through the packing material which was around the radio, and the box it was in for fragments of the broken cabinet, and found almost all of it except for those bits which were too tiny to find. I put them in a plastic sandwich bag which I taped to the radio so they wouldn't get lost. Today I carefully put them back into place. It was a lot like assembling a three dimensional jig saw puzzle. I used Loctite GO2 Gel for the glue. It dries to the point I could leave things in place fast enough to work well in this instance. It is now pretty well dried, and well on its way to being finished. I need to do a tiny bit of patching using Bondo to fill the little missing area, and what there is of tiny cracks between the pieces, then sand, and touch up paint with some poly based paint which I will mix to match. Since the cabinet is that old swirled, dark brown RCA and some others used, it won't be too difficult. Then I'll give it a coat of semi gloss poly and it will look acceptable. Here's what it looks like so far...
[Image: https://66.media.tumblr.com/fc0f8cf1b0b9...e397e6.jpg]
