| :Hi David, : It all depends on what you want the radio for. : A radio with torn grill cloth and a missing knob may not be good furnature for your home. If it hangs around a while like that you may soon get sick of it. : If you have a safe place, you may want to keep it there untouched. I think in about ten years untouched radios like this will be quite rare. : However, if you want the challenge of getting this working, you are with us! : Grill cloth is now only available as reproductions as far as I know. I do know that one place did specialize in grill cloths. I don't have the web site anymore since I have a drapery place near by. : Knobs for this radio do crop up on eBay rather frequently, so you may be able to win an original there. : Other parts for this radio are readily available. : I do have some reason to believe that the schematic for this radio on this web site may be wrong. Usually the 'B' in a Zenith model number from this vintage is a battery operated radio. : : It looks like this radio is a console set. It has three bands, two of them short wave. It has an RF amplifier stage which will make it quite sensitive, too. : : Cleaned up and working, it will look and sound wornderful. : :Best Regards, : :Bill : : :IPAddress: ***.83.149.250 Bill, Thank you for the information. I definitely want to try to restore this radio! I just want to make sure before I do that restoration is a better avenue than preservation. I would be glad to email a couple of photos to you for your opinion if you send me your email address. I looked at the schematic on this web site and it looked like the chassi I have in the unit. Also the schematic is for chassis no. 5635 and that is the right chassis. Thanks again and any other info will be greatly appreciated. Dave |
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