The back picture shows that there had been some drilling done to the case for external input or output jacks. The wiring was so hodge-podge that I simply cut the wires going to these jacks and following the service schematic to rewire the unit to how it was supposed to be. After a tube and a recapping job, both the radio and the record player played just fine. I had just bought an old 78 of the song Paper Moon, and I have to tell you it was pretty neat hearing this thing play the record, even if this unit came several decades after the record. What was more impressive was that the crystal cartridge had not degraded to the point that it wouldn't play. I suppose at some point, humidity will ruin it, but for now, I'm happy its working.
This picture shows where the old RCA, toggle switches and terminals for the supplemental antenna were. Bondo is a body filler used in auto repair, but it has many uses and worked well with the bakelite holes, missing pieces and filling in the crack in the lower right hand corner near then on-off switch.
In this picture the light area is all bondo. It is about four inches long and about 3/4 of an inch at its widest part. This part of the radio was simply missing when I got it and so I used the bondo to fabricate the missing area.
This picture shows the bondo repair after paint. It is not noticeable. Since I wasn't too concerned about how the inside looked and because I wanted to leave enough bondo to anchor the repair to the case, I only rough sanded the inside portion.
And here it is all done: repaired and painted case, repaired and painted tone arm, reflocked turntable, repainted dial numbers. It looks good and performs well too.
