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 More options Feb 17 2005, 9:12 pm
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From: Sniper <majorret...@nospam.yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 02:12:52 GMT
Local: Thurs, Feb 17 2005 9:12 pm
Subject: Re: Bandspread Dial lettering - horror!
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On 17 Feb 2005 16:26:38 -0800, "jjbunn" <jul...@cacr.caltech.edu>
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>In the course of (not) carefully (enough) cleaning a recently acquired
>Hallicrafters SX110, I made the big mistake of placing the bandspread
>dial glass under some lightly running water, and watched in horror as
>all the dial's white lettering collected in a puddle in the sink!

>I am now faced with the problem of re-creating the white lettering on
>the glass, and am looking for suggestions from folks in this group.
>Here is what I have tried so far, with little success.

You might want to check with these folks:
http://www.radiodaze.com/reproglassdials.htm

One of their repros is for the front plate of the SX-110

Good luck.


 
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