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update on radio fun,
this morning i drove some of the steel chassis innards to the sandblasting / plating shops up in Oakland

started some cleanup work on the tuner unit
used Meguiar's ultimate polish to clean the dial face, i think it turned out very well
some parts had received a good layer of blue paint, i'm going to reuse the plastic part of the escutcheon because the aftermarket replacements don't allow an original dial face to fit.
(i find that in general reproduction plastic escutcheons won't fit most of the parts that need to go into them)

after carefully scraping off the paint and sun damaged parts, i was able to use boiling water to carefully straighten and restore the form of the original plastic
i'll repaint it with a wine/maroon color, it's not original to have paint, but it's in too rough of shape and color anyway
anyone wanting a more precise restoration would either have to work with the aftermarket plastics or use a better matched paint on this one
repainting this part would not require much effort
-s