Disassenbly, Part 3 (January-May, 2017)

So I was sitting in the Barber chair the other day, and I got to talking with Dave, my barber, about the RO. Turns out he knows a furniture restoration guy, and he provided me with contact details! Got home, checked out the website (http://minutemanservices.biz/), and then sent the Scott (the owner) an email, with a couple pictures, asking if he would be interested in working on the RO cabinet.

"Sure", he says. "Bring it by and let's have a look at it!"

Except I didn't have the cabinet completely stripped yet!

So............

Cabinet:

Knowing I needed to find someplace to set the "guts" of the RO, I built a "test stand" for it:

After going through and making sure that all wires were disconnected from cabinet (and taking lots of pictures), with the help of my wife (Yes, I can learn from previous experience!), we lifted the mechanism assembly out the cabinet and set it down here:

It's pretty cool to see this in-person, really!

But still the cabinet is not stripped clean....

So, more bagging & tagging, more pictures (yadda, yadda), until I got down to this:

I stumbled across this little bit of "ugliness" on the lower edge that I had somehow previously missed:

Hopefully Scott,can repair this as well.

I find it very interesting that, in some of the pictures above, the original finish of the side panels can be deduced from where the chrome has covered it for the past 62 years! Look at the top of the panels where it seems to be discolored a bit....

Hopefully Scott can replicate that pattern and color!

Lastly (for now),  the stripped cabinet (with rear panel), the rusty front metal piece from the door, and a small box of parts that need to be painted (more on this next time)