Not too many of those around. Beautiful restoration Russ
thanks.
No, like I mentioned the ID on RM is kinda' messed up, using the model names "1937, Deluxe, 525" and a bunch of other combinations, all of which relate to the radio - in the correct order.
Somewhere on the site I have a picture of its big brother, a 735, as I recall. A truly impressive "farm radio". I think it is in the "rare & unusual" tab.
Nice set, sounds swell.
Paul
Thanks guys.
I am about a day away from buffing out the 5-F-134 cabinet. This is the 2nd farm radio - the one that needed to have the chassis replated.
Since I was doing one chassis, I decided to replat a 5-S-127 chassis as well. On it the variable cap and IF transformer covers were done as well. I had mentioned zinc plating previously. This chassis will also fit in the same Zenith cabinet.
I will add it to the blog asap.
Do you have pics of the re-plated chassis? Perhaps I missed it in your blog.
It will still be a few days before I have the Zenith reassembled. I will post pictures of the process then. The zinc plating was pretty easy and inexpensive.
Picture: from left to right -
As found
Cleaned up (some base metal exposed)
Replated
The picture was originally vertically oriented making the can on the right appear larger. In the original orientation it was closer - so appears larger.
Nice. looking forward to seeing the whole chassis after re-plating. When I clean up a rusty chassis with a lot of base metal showing, I paint, but would like to re-plate if it looks closer to original. Extra work as the sockets need to be removed. Although, I'm used to that with the Scotts!
