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Yes resting on the dial is not a good idea, with the dial not working, let alone the fact that the metal is pretty thin on both the hub and the escutcheon and considering a very heavy chassis they would bend each other - John probably meant the fact that if you tilt the radio side to side or backwards, the fact that the dial protrudes through the hole of a close diameter will not let the chassis fall out which it would do otherwise being heavy and held by a single (and not that thick) screw at the back (the leverage is hyoooooge!).

And yes - the wood does not help the microphonics and will in fact defeat any dampening action of the rubber washers, so those got to be shipping fixtures.