This was a perfect project for a novice. It took me six months, but I've finally completed the chassis restoration. It works well and I've done everything I can to make it look good. Now I'm fully engaged in restoring the cabinet, but here's an overview of what I've done with the chassis (culled from 2 gigabytes of photos):

https://picasaweb.google.com/coldrb/Airline1931ChassisRestoration?feat=directlink

Hopefully this will be of some help to someone some day.

- Winky

Winky, ;-)
That's a most meticulous job and an enjoyable and instructive tour through your processes. Thank you for showing how you did it.

Beautiful work!