The sheet metal work in projects like this interests me. In the 1930s the new technology of the time was shortwave radio, so hobbyists built their own. Short

The sheet metal work in projects like this interests me. In the 1930s the new technology of the time was shortwave radio, so hobbyists built their own. Short Wave Craft was a magazine that supported this hobby- it's very much like Popular Electronics or Byte magazine. Always there were sheet metal plans included in the project. Here is an issue of it (pages 51 and 35 have typical chassis plans): https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Short-Wave-Television/30s/SW-TV-1934-12.pdf https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Short-Wave-Tele... So did hobbyists have access to sheet metal brakes? Not really- they either use a vice and hammer, or bought pre-made chasses from a place called "Blan the Radio Man"- a store in NYC's old Radio Row: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Row https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Row https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d5/4f/2c/d54f2c957af5cec2983151c613875e47.jpg https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d5/4f/2c/d54f2c957af5cec29831...