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Bruce Mercer Bruce Mercer is offline
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Default RCA woodworking quandry

Is there any way to shrink this photo so I can see what it is?


"Tom Adkins" wrote in message
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I'm finally getting to the cabinet of my RCA C15-3.
There was damage to the top that I thought was from water. The veneer on
the left
side(viewed from the front) was gone and the surrounding veneer was
lifting. The
crossbanding was also lifting in the left front corner.
I stripped the veneer and cut out the ragged crossbanding. It appears
that someone
had sat a lead-acid battery on that corner of the radio at one time. The
stains on the
base wood bear his out. I've since stripped the crossbanding off the
entire top, so
the top is only the base wood, ~2" wide strips of ~1" board bonded
together.
The contamination has gotten into the base wood on the entire left side,
and left
the wood "soft". I can dig it out with a fingernail. This repair is
quickly getting
beyond my expertise. Thoughts?