[Ron Ramirez]

Well, as I said...I will think about it some more before I decide upon a plan of action for the antenna Fahnestock clip. Oh, and the clip on mine is OK, it's just the phenolic it was attached to that is broken.

The Philco sets use two pieces of phenolic as well, but they fit into a large hole in the chassis and each half is "stepped" so it fits snugly into the large hole. Once riveted, the pieces hold themselves in place tightly in that large hole. And the antenna lead is soldered to a solder terminal on the inside of the chassis where the Fahnestock clip attached on the outside. The rivet acts as a conductor for the antenna.

I tried to paint the dial back plate this afternoon. It was a disaster. It fisheyed horribly. I guess I will strip it down and try again, but not tonight. I will wait until I can find some better spray paint (the only light color paint we had here was some Wal-Mart cheapie spray paint) and some primer. I will strip it down to bare metal before trying again, rather than rubbing down the original ivory paint with 0000 steel wool and painting over it as I did.

Painting the dial pointer went well, and it is now put away in a safe place to wait until the new dial scale arrives.