This is a nice looking console, and
is one of our best sounding radios for tonal quality.

It is our first attempted complete
cabinet refinishing.
Despite making many major mistakes in the
project, it turned out ok in the end.

• Equipped with six handy station preset buttons
• Colorful, Bright radio dial
• Exterior "on" pilot lamp
• High quality cabinetry and carved moldings
• Brass hardware and trimming
• Unique swing-out phonograph shelf
• Phono automatically plays all records, all sizes and speeds

We got this console in 1998 as an even trade for one of our Macintosh Classics. It was kept in an extremely damp location, in a rural North Georgia (Loganville) home something like this. The veneer on top was loose and buckled on the top edges, as well in the radio compartment.
The finish was gone, the whole cabinet was a dirty gray and the brass was a shade of black. The phonograph was missing except for dangling wires and the swing-out tray which held the original some years ago, but otherwise appeared complete.

We already mentioned it was our first complete cabinet refinishing and made some mistakes. First stripped what was left of the old finish, except for the phono/record storage and under-the-lid radio areas. We did good so far but then we orbit and hand-sanded the entire exterior. We glued and clamped all loose or buckling veneer. Without applying wood filler to make the surface smooth we applied a couple coats of polyurethane finish. This left the wood with a semi-rough texture and wrong color.
The original color can be seen in the radio compartment.

The radio chassis only made a loud hum, and the usual cause of this is bad filter capacitors which we replaced. That fixed the radio.
No other work was done to the radio other than clean up and a new line cord.

We were able to use a refurbished phonograph we already had "in the pile" and fabricated a mount to fit in the swing-out shelf. The phonograph is of early 1960's era. The crystal cartridge sounds a bit tinny and could use a pre-amp and tone shaping.