RCA 621ts Restoration

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A couple of updates.
The cabinet is now in the hands of the best wood finishing expert in the Pittsburgh area (or so I've been told by several trusting sources). He has been finishing wood for 58 years and has a small shop where he obsesses over his work in solitude. I had hoped to have the finished reamalgamated on the set but Lou thought the finish was too far gone for that method and that the crazing would return after only a few years. I know a few people here thought that the set shouldn't be refinished based on the pictures that I posted but the set photographed much better than it looked in person. I have ordered replacement decals from Radio Daze and will be applying them myself between the sealer and lacquer phases of the cabinet refinishing. One other bonus of refinishing is that the color will be able to be brought back to original, using the areas that were under cover as a reference. One question Lou had for me about the finish that I said I would answer later was the finish, should it be gloss, semi gloss, or something else possibly? What finish would the set have had from the factory? I would like to keep the set as close to what it would have looked like brand new.
I have also dropped off the safety glass to a local glass shop to have them cut a new piece for me. I expect that to come back next week.
On to the chassis. I have not done any component restoration yet, the electrolytics have not yet arrived so I've just been doing some further cleaning and polishing of the chassis. There were some non original decals on the rear of the set next to each control knob that were tough to remove. I tried scrubbing them off but I ended up having to sand them off in the end.


Looking at pictures of Tom Albrecht's 621 I think that the labels for the rear control knobs were ink printed directly on the back panel. If this turns out to be the case I'll have to make templates and screen print them on. Can any one post some higher res pictures of their back with the labels so that I can get a font, location, and size?
Can some one also confirm what style and color the screws are for the back of the set?