21-CT-55 Parts needed for restoration;

[CT-100]

Bob:

Thank you for your advice. Some of the techniques you have described are currently beyond my abilities; however I think you’ve made an excellent point. Specifically, a large segment of this hobby is developing new skills and using them to create what we’re missing.

I once again took the opportunity to visit your web-pages to more carefully read about your 21-CT-55 restoration project. Compared to what you were able to fabricate, my parts should be a “walk in the park”. The knob you located for me a few months ago is working perfectly; that was the missing on-off/volume control knob for the “55”. The missing bottom plate should not be too difficult to make; McMaster-Carr has perforated sheet stock that closely resembles the characteristics of the bottom plate on [my] CT-100. I’ll assume the bottoms plates were very similar, if not identical, except for possibly their final dimensions. The low-voltage cage I located is indistinguishable from the one on the CT-100, but I didn’t make that personally. This was provided by a very generous fellow collector. The shorting bar may be more trouble than it’s worth, but we may be taking “sour-grapes” here because I “ain’t gonna” find one of those assemblies regardless.

As you can read in the post below, I have fabricated a leg of the correct dimensions by cutting a section, that is, some from the top and the bottom, of a leg I located at a neighborhood garage sale. It does not have the proper brass ferrule, but nevertheless, it is correct in terms of its length and top and bottom diameters.

Mark