[Ron Ramirez]

Productive day on the Bozaks today...

After lunch, I wrapped some wax paper around one cabinet, at the top of the grille cloth.

Having already attached the new top to the cabinet, I then drilled pilot holes into the top trim and proceeded to nail and glue them to the new top.

The result:

[Image: http://www.philcoradio.com/images/phorum/bozak_023.jpg]

[Image: http://www.philcoradio.com/images/phorum/bozak_024.jpg]

It isn't perfect, as you can tell in the second picture - a gap somehow developed in the right front corner of the trim. I filled it with some of the same wood filler I used to fill the nail holes in the trim.

Try as I might, I did not get the trim 100% level with the top. I'll just have to live with whatever imperfections I cannot correct by sanding.

I had to buy a nail set as I did not have one. This is a really nifty tool. It did a great job of countersinking the very small nails I used to attach the trim to the top.

Anyway...after I finished with one top, I repeated the process for the second top. Both have been set aside to let the glue dry thoroughly.

While I was at it, I used the same nail chucked into the Craftsman drill to drill pilot holes for the bottom trim. I know that I may have to repeat the process after that trim gets sanded, stained, and finished.

And that is the next step - sand, stain, then finish the bottom trim and the new tops.

I compared the old trim to the new lattice molding and the new molding is just very slightly smaller than the original trim. I think it is going to work out OK.