Unknown Beetle Plastic Radio, perhaps an Admiral or Minerva
It really was a basket case. The entire inside of the radio including the beetle plastic case was covered in a black, oily, sooty compound. A piece of masking tape stuck to the IF can had 1937 written on it, otherwise there were no identifying markings. Someone replaced the 25Z5 with a 25Z6 and went through the trouble of putting in an octal socket, so it was clear to see that the set had been tampered with. I took notes, pictures, disassembled, and cleaned.
That was the fall of 2004,and I wouldn't attempt to resurrect the set until another two and a half years later.
All resistors and capacitors were replaced. I had to make an educated guess for some of the values due to components being destroyed, poorly marked,or previously replaced with an incorrect value. I ended up putting a replacement IF transformer under the chassis and installing a variable core inductor as a substitute for what I would guess would be a loop antenna .
