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Coca-Cola cooler radio
So finally managed to pick up one of these that wasn’t absurdly priced. Mine is missing the grill cloth, does anyone know the proper color cloth? I believe it was a solid color, but most of the internet photos are hard to see.
Should I repaint this thing? Besides the typical nicks and scuffs (which I’m fine with) the paint on the one side is particularly worn 510CDD4E-B6CE-4C8E-9D45-1ED6617359CC.jpg The other side has some weird thing going on with the colors. Almost looks like a crappy repaint on only part of the radio E538C8C1-6E0D-4EAF-A547-5425BF60B5FD.jpg FBF066ED-D8D2-4350-91C1-4E02D501070D.jpg If I do repaint, it’ll give me an opportunity to repair a few of the broken bars on the grill as well Thanks all, Zach
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As I recall, the cloth was a coarse buff (tan) colour.
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Unless your 101% certain you can cosmetically restore it to a degree that an "expert" couldn't tell it was cosmetically restored , I'd leave it alone and repair the internal electronics only , and only to the degree it needs to get it running . Like you so rightly said , where most of those are "absurdly priced" I'd even consider restuffing the caps to preserve it's original internal appearance . In the future the "patina" and slight cracks will be seen as signs of it being a survivor , whereas a badly done cosmetic restoration will DRASTICALLY reduce it's value .
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