1. How corrosion destroyed components:

A. The Sylvania 2N194 Converter Transistor leads rotted away. I found a 1950's replacement and used a "top hat"

GE 2N169 I had cannibalized from a real basket case radio.

B. The Sylvania 2N233 IF Amplifier Transistor also lost half its lead. I was able to fix that one. Some resistors were way out of tolerance so as you can see I replaced them.

C. The battery corrosion destroyed the speaker and I wound up replacing it. However the output transformer was riveted into the speaker so I had to remove it and mounted it on the hardboard as shown. The hardboard was also damaged by corrosion and I had to make a substitute and painted it to original color. In addition the tuning capacitor was corroded, I removed the corrosion and repainted it (not shown).2. Turned the radio on and checked transistors and electrolytic capacitors. The radio made a sound but it was weak and sounded terrible. I put my hand near the antenna and the sound got stronger and can tune stations. I ran a signal test through it and I lost most of the signal past the audio amplifier stage. Usually there is a detector diode and filter circuit that changes the radio signal into sounds the human ear can hear. I looked all over and can't find one. Sometimes radio designers use a transistor as a detector but this was not the case with this radio. I had to find a schematic for this radio and wound up buying one online.

A. After looking at the schematic I found the detector diode was built into one of the IF transformer cans as shown below. After carefully taking it out of the circuit board and opening the can I checked the transformer and it checked good, but the detector diode (Raytheon 1N60 in plastic molded body) had a much higher than normal forward voltage, which is probably due to moisture contamination as the plastic started to shrink and the seal gave way. I replaced it with a modern 1N34A glass sealed diode. Put everything back in and turned it on and now I got a LOT more speaker volume but not clear.