Zenith Mod 7500WU-6 "Chancellor"

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Have done a little bit of work over the past couple of weeks. I've blown out the dust from inside the cabinet and have carefully sponged everything down to get the thing clean. After about 4 coats of Howard's Golden Oak, the cabinet is looking pretty decent, but I need some to do kind of a finish coat,as the cabinet is now a little dull. Should I do lacquer, tung oil, Howard's neutral, or paste wax. I know that older radios have a lacquer finish, but I'm not sure it would be appropriate for a mid 60's console. Suggestions?

I slowly brought the radio and amp up on a variac. Haven't tried the TV out yet. Both the radio/preamp and the SS amp work well and the set sounds great. No appreciable heat on any of the electrolytic cans after running the set for a couple of hours. The "bad channel" that the previous owner mentioned turned out to be a dirty switch on the radio. After cycling the pushbuttons a couple of times, the intermittent seems to have disappeared. Probably should clean those switches when I get around to recapping the set.

Took the turntable out and cleaned and lubricated it. Got it to run in manual mode, but it still gets hung up in auto......sounds like I need to do a bit more cleaning and lubing under there. Bought a new needle and played a few records in manual mode. Sounds great.

Bought a complete set of 8 duplicate speakers on the bay that were taken from a similar console.....just in case I needed them. Looks like I won't need them, so I'm thinking of having some custom cabinets built and using them as a pair of remote speakers for the set.