[sexton_mallard]

Thanks guys for your stories. I tried the Brasso & Pledge method and it has brought the faceplate up much better (and looks better in the flesh than in the pic below). There is still some scoring and a strange squiggle mark which actually looks like a contamination of the plastic as it radiates out from the injection point. I showed this set to my daughter explaining that this was my main form of entertainment before I got my Hi-Fi at 16.

For years I never realised what a VFD actually was until the orange glowing cathode wires, the honeycomb grid and the anode with the fluorescent target in a flat glass package with a evacuation pip on the back and a splodge of a getter seemed to be like a valve...

This set only has a thin black mask with clear windows behind the slightly blue tinted faceplate so allowing the full brightness and colour of the the VFD to show.

That Interstate clock radio is a beauty. My Nephew picked that exact model up at the same car boot a few years ago and I have been on the look-out for one ever since.