Looks like the band selector switch (AM-FM) is completely gone and there might be some damage to the PCB where it connected.
And in the catalog image, note that the Tuning knob is larger. It looks to me like the knob from the Band selector switch has been moved up to the Tuning position and the original Tuning knob is gone.
And you've learned your first lesson about repairing stuff with complicated routings: Take photos _before_ you take it apart!
The catalog can be found here: http://pdf.textfiles.com/catalogs/RADIOSHACK/
Yea, the original tuning knob was missing when I started. Also, I agree about the pictures... major oversight on my part
The band selector is fine, there is a piece of plastic that connects to the bottom of the selector nob and it reaches through a hole in the board to flip a physical switch on the back side.
It is just currently removed as I was trying to use its knob as a temporary tuning knob.
Thank you for the link to the catalog files!
My best guess. Note that the dial cord may be wrapped around the tuning cap wheel several times.
While that's a good guess,, my take on it is it would include the metal "pegs" up top, and the dial would run across between them.
Something like this, if you forgive the crap shaky mouse drawing. (I was never good at art, less so on computers.)
Yea It most definitely goes around those top pegs at some point. The tuning needle is a plastic tab physically connected to the tuning cord and it moves between the pegs. When I wire it up I get a lot of slack and I am not sure which wheel should get the cord wrapped around it more than once. Also those little white plastic wheels had the wire wrapped around the big part of the wheel and the small part as well though how many times and in what way I am not sure. From fiddling with It I think that it is done that way to increase the travel distance of the tuning needle.