I have a few tabletop and a floor model radios. I also have my Grandparents 1949 Admiral television which still works, has a transformer in it you could fry bacon on. All retirement projects I'll probably never get to but want to.
You might change your tune a little if re-stringing the tuning dial cord is necessary . They are well known or infamous really, for being a very complicated routing & pulley arrangement that was designed by a psychopath engineer.