Bringing a 1960s radio back

It came from a house clearance with a cracked dial glass and a hum that drowned everything else. The hum was the usual suspect: the big filter capacitors had dried out. Two new ones, mounted under the chassis with the old cans left in place for looks, and the hum was gone.

The dial cord was the real work. It runs around four pulleys and a drum, and the only diagram I could find was a blurry photo. Took three tries and a lot of masking tape to hold the tension while tying the spring on.

It now picks up long wave in the evening, faint and warm. Worth every evening spent on it.