What do you do when your favorite cat goes exploring on your highest radio display shelf.... and gives one of your favorite wood radios the good-ole 7 foot drop test???
( especially the radio that you spent a week on restoring the cabinet)

[luckly only a 7b7 filament broke ... but it works and there's a dent in my hardood floor now too]

Well so anyway...you pick up the 4 cabinet pieces and get out the wood glue and here's what you get... :-((

:What do you do when your favorite cat goes exploring on your highest radio display shelf.... and gives one of your favorite wood radios the good-ole 7 foot drop test???
:( especially the radio that you spent a week on restoring the cabinet)
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:[luckly only a 7b7 filament broke ... but it works and there's a dent in my hardood floor now too
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:Well so anyway...you pick up the 4 cabinet pieces and get out the wood glue and here's what you get... :-((
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Ouch! I have 3 cats and they haven't damaged anything yet. Also taking care of a stray and her 4 kittens, but they don't have run of the house. Come to think of it, one of them knocked over an antique clock and bent 2 hinges--could have been worse.

I assume that was Peanut's endeavor? No kitty treats for a week! Sorry to see that.

::What do you do when your favorite cat goes exploring on your highest radio display shelf.... and gives one of your favorite wood radios the good-ole 7 foot drop test???
::( especially the radio that you spent a week on restoring the cabinet)
::
::[luckly only a 7b7 filament broke ... but it works and there's a dent in my hardood floor now too
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::Well so anyway...you pick up the 4 cabinet pieces and get out the wood glue and here's what you get... :-((
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:Ouch! I have 3 cats and they haven't damaged anything yet. Also taking care of a stray and her 4 kittens, but they don't have run of the house. Come to think of it, one of them knocked over an antique clock and bent 2 hinges--could have been worse.

We had a cat that hated everyone except my wife. One day, during one of its' many paranoid episodes, it decided to try to escape out a screen window. That was where my original finish early 1930s floor model Silvertone used to sit. The cat used the radio to try and push through the screen. The radio fell on its' face. The top snapped off and a nice crack appeared on the corner, not unlike the one on your radio. I feel for you. No comment about the cat. Pets will be pets.

MRO

:I assume that was Peanut's endeavor? No kitty treats for a week! Sorry to see that.
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:::What do you do when your favorite cat goes exploring on your highest radio display shelf.... and gives one of your favorite wood radios the good-ole 7 foot drop test???
:::( especially the radio that you spent a week on restoring the cabinet)
:::
:::[luckly only a 7b7 filament broke ... but it works and there's a dent in my hardood floor now too
:::
:::Well so anyway...you pick up the 4 cabinet pieces and get out the wood glue and here's what you get... :-((
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::Ouch! I have 3 cats and they haven't damaged anything yet. Also taking care of a stray and her 4 kittens, but they don't have run of the house. Come to think of it, one of them knocked over an antique clock and bent 2 hinges--could have been worse.

:I assume that was Peanut's endeavor? No kitty treats for a week! Sorry to see that.
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Yep!.. that was little Miss "Peanut" alright... she was just doing her usual exploring & shelf-mountian climbing... and there was a slippey dustcover cloth over the radio and she just lost her footing...
I will learn to keep these more secure... she doesn't really know any better... she tries to let ME do all the thinking... and I goofed up... lol

I have radios sitting in my window sills (including the one that broke apart in the mail). What I do is close the AC cords in the windows. That way, if the cats kick off, the radios stay put. Luckly noone has kicked over the Crosley 1117. My cat Spice, who's half Siamese and half Tabby (a really energetic combination), has raised her paws to the speaker twice. I yelled at her, and she hasn't done it since. She thinks I'm her boyfriend (almost literally...I'm her's, and noone else's), and so she respects my wishes. The other cat, who's declawed, has tried rubbing her paws on the DeWald television speaker a few times. She's so fat and lazy, though, that she isn't usually what I worry about.

About that radio, though, glue it together as well as possible. Really press the wood together solidly. Then fill with a good filler that won't shrink. Blend in some darker lacquers and kind of shade the area so that the damage just looks like a discoloration. My dad did this to my Crosley in a place where I tried to mend a chip, but the veneer patch looked obvious no matter what I did (it's front and center). He used model railroad paints and putty to kind of blend the area so that it just looks like a dark section of the wood. It looks really nice. I varnished the radio, so enamels worked well. You don't want to lacquer over enamel, though. It will lift.

Thomas

The one that broke apart is the Northern Electric. It looks great now. I also don't worry about anyone kicking over the Majestic. It weighs a ton. I keep the doors closed, though. That way noone will scratch the grill.

T.