This weekend finds
 

Picked up a philco 37-60 cathedral on saturday and a DeWald cathedral/tombstone today. The philco cabinet needs work, most of the veneer is peeling, but the front is good. The DeWald cabinet is nice, but the chassis is rusty....a candidate for the glass beading cabinet. Plus it needs a grillcloth...the guy I got it from accidently put his finger thru it.
The first 2 pics are the DeWald, the rest are the philco.

New radios
 

Wow.. those look great! Fantastic find...

Keep posting pictures on your progress. How you gonna fix that de-laminated top part of the case?

Buzz

Tear it off and put on new laminate

I pulled the chassis out of the philco 37-60, very dirty and rusty.This thing sat in a damp basement for years. Blew it off with compressed air, recapped it. hooked it up and got some stations. Next stripped the tubes and did some masking, and put it in the glass beader. Blasted it, blew it out again, and primed it. Then painted the transformer. Left it sit for a day, masked off the transformer and painted the rest of it.
Turned out pretty good. Next onto the cabinet...ordered the veneer, should get it next week.

Ooooooh....Dat's SCHWEET !!

Veeery nice! I'd love to get one of those glass beaders :yes:

I picked up the largest harbor freight had. The compartment is like 36" long by 24" wide. Comes in handy for a number of things :yes: Owned it for like 2 yrs now.

Little beads
 

Hi,
Great Idea! Did you have to remove any other components like the variable capacitor? I bet the beads would clean that up but I'd worry about the capacitors' meshing plates getting bent.:scratch2:

Buzz

Did'nt remove the tuner, or the cap and coil cans, just have to watch what kind of nozzle and air pressure to use. Got to be light on the air and a large nozzle.

Since i got the chassis all finished, I started on the philco cabinet. The laminate is peeling off effortlessly, but the lower layers also started to separate, so I had to glue and clamp some of it together. Since this was in the dampness for a long time, the old fasion glue just lets loose.The front just may be good enough to go over with howards...I'll have to try it and see.
I already got the new mahogany for the entire top a few days ago.

Is the front of that Philco photofinish (basically glued-on printed paper)? If so, you could clean it carefully with waterless hand cleaner (no pumice kind) and then touch up the nicks and scratches with a fine brush and some stain or artist's paints.

I think it might be. Problem I found is somebody put varnish over top of it. I have been working to remove it. I measured the striping and such incase it gets ruined worse than it is.