[Ron Ramirez]

unfortunately.....it was in a flood and the chassis was full of dirt and terrible corrosion........and the wood was very badly water damaged.......

In that case, I can't fault you for doing this, and I don't have a problem with it if the radio was in extremely poor condition as you describe.

But I, and most if not all of the rest of us here, have heard of more than one instance where others have taken perfectly good, restorable radios and converted them to retro-computer-whatevers. It is when this is done to a good, restorable radio that we tend to get upset about it...because we are interested in preserving history, not destroying it.

Daniel - thanks. Until Sondowner told us that his radio was basically a wreck, the picture expressed my feelings better than words could have.