[Fred Taylor]

Fred,
Send me your bare chassis and I'll get it zinc plated for you!
Steve

Steve;
  Ordinarily that would work for a chassis restoration, but with several Philco models there are aluminum shield cans that are permanently attached to the chassis. Rather then use threaded studs and nuts, clips, or even rivets, they inserted the cans into corresponding sized holes and then rolled the bottom edge over so you can't take them out. The coils inside these are attached to a bracket which is screwed onto the chassis from the underside and those can be removed for repair or replacement. Maybe someone can figure out how to remove these cans without destroying them, but then you would also have to figure out how to replace them? Perhaps I or someone else can experiment on a junk chassis.
Regards
Arran

Thanks Steve for the kind offer, if I knew electrical and how to read a schematic real good then I would gut it out and plate it instead of painting. That's a whole lot of work redoing all that , I wouldn't know how to put it all back together, my specialty is cabinet refinishing and repair although I do know the basics on the chassis,s and like Arran said those aluminum coil cans are pressed in and cant be removed with destroying them. Thanks again Steve