If he’s still watching this site to see if his radio makes an appearance after all these years, I congratulate him on his patience. While speaking with the seller I mentioned the existence of this blog. After all that work, I was happy to see that there was very little rust. I just had to wipe it all by hand with rags and alcohol. So no combination of canned air and vacuum cleaner nozzles were effective in cleaning the two metal chassis inside this cabinet. And then more dust accumulated on top of that. The dust had, at some point, gotten damp, and then heat-dried, so that it essentially baked on to the metal surfaces. I suspect it had spent several decades in a sheltered but dusty location prior to that. I bought this radio on Craigslist approximately 5 years ago from a gentleman in West Omaha who was storing it in a non-heated storage unit. Even lifting it up a few inches on to the moving dolly is properly a two-person operation. So, once some unrelated year-end electronic distractions were cleared off of the workbench, I resolved to turn my attention to the longest-waiting radio in my collection, this RCA-Victor Model R-35, from 1930: However it recently occurred to me that I had not done a floor-standing radio restoration since the Atwater Kent 70, more than 3 years ago.
This was so that my rate-of-repair would approximate my rate-of-acquisition. Long ago, I placed upon myself a restriction to purchase, at most, one floor-standing radio per calendar year.
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