Restoring a 60's console - Part 1: The furniture

With my history of ruining as much as I repair, I'm diving headlong into something I never have done before, repairing tube (or valve) gear!

The Unitra or Diora DGS-302 is a tube radio and record player from Poland, built discreetly into a piece of stylish furniture. This one has loads of problems, and we'll start in Part 1 with fixing up the furniture.

Error: On my drive in the mountains I visited two towns one day, Dzierżoniów and Świdnica. In the six months since I was there I succeeded in getting the two confused, so when I say Świdnica in this video I'm actually talking about Dzierżoniów. My apologies.

Content:
00:00 Introduction
00:56 What I need to repair
03:02 Taking out the record player
04:47 Taking out the radio
06:46 Scraping off the old glue
07:21 A brief history of the Diora factory
09:09 Gluing the cracked wood
09:51 Repairing the wonky leg
11:04 Putting the lid back on
11:41 Outro

[MrSergiolok]

Unitra was not a factory Unitra was a trade union based in Warsaw on ulica Nowogrodzka. Unitra united 37 electronics factories, research laboratories etc. Diora was joined into unitra in the late 1960s. and was a part of it until 1991 when Unitra was disolved. Diora istself continued until 2006 as Diora S.A though production stopped in the late 1990s. Also Diora was based in Dzierżonów and the museum you are talking about and showing on the picture is the town museum in Dizerżonów. In świdnica Diora had a branch that made speaker sets, that branch still exists. The factory in Dzierżonów made radios from the very begining of its existance, right after the war they started assembling radios still from post German parts, After all the name Diora comes from flipping around the siyllables in the word radio.