This was restored for a friend of Jim’s as a replacement for his grandmothers that was lost in a fire. One was located in Kentucky and brought down to Florida by our sister and brother-in-law. The chassis was dead and the cabinet a little banged up but everything was intact. Chassis was cleaned, recapped, out of tolerance resistors replaced, weak and bad tubes swapped out. As much of the bad rubber wiring that we were able to get to replaced, and repaired a large hole in the speaker. Cabinet was gone over twice with Howard’s “Restor-a-finish” twice and then 3 times with “Feed-n-wax”. Looks and plays very nice with good reception across the dial.

Introduced in June of 1939 for the 1940 model year. 7-tubes, 3 bands (broadcast, police, and SW). Although the cabinet was first used in the 39-31XK model in January, 1939 with a 6-tube chassis but only had two bands (broadcast and SW). The price for the newer 7 tube 40-180XF was $10 cheaper than the earlier model at $69.95 vs $79.95 for the 39-41XK and had the extra Police band. The same chassis was also used in the table-top model 40-150. There were 129,076 produced (total of the 39-31XK and 40-180XF).

In the new owner’s house decorated for Christmas

This was the original radio that was replaced and this is his grandma listening to it. Glad we could replace it for you Mike!!!!