Oh brother...
Ok, radios don't come with loose hardware. However, if you suggest that you think we are saying you loosened the hardware yourself - please point that out in the post - I'd like to know. I was "being generalized" and considering the point of view of your response - was that you FOUND the hardware to be able to be loosened by hand, makes it appear that you didn't do this intentionally - but - if you say so - I digress...
What I see in the posts are that you pried up a part and it broke, we're trying to help you put it back together - you're not helping by accusing those trying to help - of undoing the very things you're trying to do! OR vice-versa - something like that...
Now - to get back on track, loose hardware and no idea as to the origin of the radio - as in previous owner, we're left with the aspect of a radio that's going to get new finals. But we have no true idea of the original condition of the radio.
But, did we ever check to see if the finals that are in it - even work? It may be safer and better to believe that the radio worked before the surgery is getting performed - as in - it was alive before it got killed under a hot soldering iron. Then we'd have a least a notion that we DID have a working radio - we may be able to help it recover.
Now if you haven't done anything too excessive to it, let's step back from the precipice for a moment and look a little further into this...
Ok, we don't have a spare MV-1Y - but if you have a 1N4148 or even a 1N914 - put one in there. Where the old MV-1Y went - it's doesn't have to bolt up, but it has to be soldered in - CORRECTLY ORIENTED so the part takes the proper place of the DIODE it replaces.
The DIODE is used to help the BASE lead keep the proper voltage across it so it can work. So it needs a power that has to flow properly - so the DIODE - oriented correctly, allows the power to flow across the parts in the proper direction - as in polarity.
Can you work with us here?
