[Jayce]

More good news with this radio. Tested the tubes and all were very good except the 7B8 tube which read a bit weak. Luckily, I had a better 'Genuine Philco' 7B8 in my stash to swap into the radio. I must say, these loktals are fairly durable tubes overall. Both dial bulbs are blown, but everything else checks out so far. One question I have is cleaning the slug tuners on these units. As I said earlier, it will tune some stations on low power, but it's VERY touchy and I am suspecting dirt and crap in the tuner. Is there a safe way to clean these or should I simply use compressed air to get the worst of the gunk out of the tuning coils and slugs?