[TexMac]

I did a Loktal version of the same set in Bakelite some time ago. I should have used your approach since it seems they always have every single wire gone bad. I wonder where the wire came from? There is a lot of bad rubber wire out there, but never as bad as in these radios.

But, when finished, they only need the alignment tweaked to work like a champ. I found a gimmick in mine where one wire to the oscillator coil was wrapped a single tight turn around a capacitor lead. Did you see anything like that in yours? I did not make a photo of it, since I was replacing as I removed.

To the point of an earlier poster, it is not just BC - the shortwave is not slouchy for a little table top set.