[Beardyman]

Had this one on the bench for a while now, looking rather forlorn & tatty. The top is separate, I would think the animal based glue has decomposed somewhat. As far as I can see, someone in its past, decided to give it a coat of dark varnish. It's mostly peeling off as you can see. No sign of the label on top either which kind of bolsters my suspicion that the finish isn't original. Speaker cloth isn't too moth eaten & it may well be possible to salvage it. Looking under the chassis shows the three 8uf caps have, at some point, been replaced with RS dry electrolytic types but a long time ago, haven't seen those grey types since the 70's. Whoever did it made a good job of it too, they may yet reform ok, you never know. One of the valves has lost most of its coating & according to a penciled note on the chassis is a CCH35, close to an ECH35 in every respect apart from filament voltage. This one is a U21 (Philco) & according to the dial was right around 1944. The waxy's are, well, runny. A quick probe around the resistors shows they aren't too far off mostly.The volume control was replaced at some point with a switched one (wrong value too) but they didn't bother to take the toggle switch out of circuit?!? It's going to be interesting as they say!