update Without burning my fingers... i have managed to install all the main chassis components. It's starting to look like a radio again!
Put fresh wire on the I.F. transformers, the old wire was faded and very oxidized internally. The painters tape is to protect the parts during assembly. I used colorful red shrink tube on the component leads in place of the original black cloth tubing which has all gone hard, i like the new red look, if someone prefers black that's easy too.
Most of the new resistors are now metal film type which are more stable and lower noise than the original carbon composites; these are likely overkill for this application, but the absolute price difference is not significant so why not splurge (pennies) on better parts right?
The large circuit capacitors are mostly PP or PET types that I got at the local junk store. As long as they have the correct value and sufficient voltage ratings that's all that matters for the most part. All trimmer mica caps are original, they will outlive modern civilization. I did disassemble some partially to clean them, but that was not electrically necessary, cosmetic only.
A sharp eye will notice i added a capacitor across the vibrator pins and also two on the main power input under the power transformer. The vibrator capacitor will help save the points inside the vibrator, this capacitor is standard on the next generation radios that came after this design. The bulk capacitors are to help with incoming noise from the vehicle. These locations likely would have had a capacitor when the radio was designed, and then they were omitted along with other parts we will never know about in order to reduce cost. -s
