[tbone]

I’ve made more progress this week!

I removed the tuner and installed new grommets. The ones sent from Renovated Radios were not quite thick enough. I used some other grommets I had with the recently purchased ones to make everything right. I slid the chassis in the cabinet to make sure we were centered in the tuner hole. I’ll know more when I put the dial back on.

The volume control was opened up and cleaned and the rebuilt tone control was re-installed as well.

Now I’m removing the covers from the coils and IF transformers so I can clean the chassis and remove the years of dirt inside and on the trimmers. I’ll add new grid wires before I put them back.

I’m waiting for a 6,000 PF mica capacitor (two 3,000 PF caps) to replace C18 which broke during removal. It looks like there was corrosion on the lead where it enters the cap. I was able to measure the value and it was off anyway.

Definitely getting closer to first power up!