[Spook50]

I'm sort of torn on what to do with it. On one hand it'd be fun to do a totally factory restoration, but on the other there's very few AM stations here so I fear if I went that route I wouldn't get much use out of it. I'm debating on taking a stereo vacuum tube amp I've had stored away and placing that inside so that I could use it and its matched speakers with iPods or my Android phone's line out, then just be able to listen to 1940's music (and my favorite broadcast, 1938's War of the Worlds) through my phone tucked away behind the cabinet. If I went this route I'd find potentiometers with matching specs to the ones on my amp but sized right to be able to mount them on the cabinet and put the original knobs on them. The amp also has a 6E2 tube that I'd love to be able to place behind the tuning display window just for the sake of some sort of active visualization.

Obviously the cabinet will be fully restored, and I wouldn't get rid of the electronics. I'd still like to clean them up and store them should I decide in the future to do a factory restoration.

Decisions decisions. This is gonna be a fun project.