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I've got one jus like maxm's set, only mine is in a beige cabinet instead of simulated woodgrain. Mine's in pretty bad shape, I found it on the side of the road a couple years ago. It worked-ish as found, only the picture didn't fill the whole screen vertically, and the radio produced only a loud 60 cycle hum. I replaced the electrolytics in the radio, and that solved that problem. I had one HELL of a time getting the radio out of there, mainly because I couldn't get the @#$&* knob off the front! I originally thought it had been glued back on at one point, since the television knobs both slid off rather easily. After much effort I was able to get the knob off, but I managed to damaged the shaft of it - turns out that the thing was secued in with an odd metal clip that would have to have been removed from the other side. It was at that moment that I realized the only way to really work on the set was to remove the metal housing from the front panel - a thought that hadn't occured to me before (it was really late...), since it seemed that most parts could be removed from the back. I had never seen a radio knob secured like that before, and couldn't believe just how much of a pain it was to work on that little set. It's still sitting on a shelf somewhere, partially disassembled, waiting for me to come up with a good way to repair that knob, and some other things, it needs some electronic help to correct the vertical issues, and it needs a lot of cleaning and other cosmetic work. It was one of those sets that I found and saved to play with - planned on fixing it and using it somewhere, and never finished. I'll fix it one of these days...
Anyway - hopefully you can learn from my mistakes, and now you know how the knob is held onto the radio...
-Ian
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