My Motorola 12VT13 Restoration.

[Dangler]

I found this at the landfill about 15 years ago and dragged it home with no idea what I was going to do with it. The cabinet was in really bad shape and I didn't know if it could be saved or not.
About a year ago, I posted that I was looking for some knobs and a vertical output transformer. Mice had chewed on the transformer and I thought it was shot. banderson was kind enough to offer a transformer and some knobs if we could figure out what they looked like. After taking the chassis out, I decided to put it away until I had more time to work on it.

I decided to see what I could do with it starting just before Christmas last year. The chassis was a big mess with mice having lived in it for who knows how long. The cabinet just about fell apart after removing the chassis, I think that was about all that was holding it together.

I started recapping it and got as far as I could until I ran out of caps. I made a list and got some ordered and started on the cabinet in the meantime. The top had a large section of veneer missing on the top right side as well as a piece on one of the sides at the bottom.

I started regluing the main parts of the cabinet to give it some strength, then started removing the remaining veneer from the top. I wanted to save pieces as large as possible to patch the side and a few other small spots.

Most of the veneer came off pretty easy, but there was one section that I had to steam off. There was plenty of good sized pieces for patching.

Continued in the next post.