[ARC5] Winter Project

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Robert,
 Please, what might that "new" brand of black wrinkle paint be? Also, many folks who do these BC-348 front panels carefully sand or scrape off the paint from the raised lettering. A stereo microscope is very useful for us gracefully moving up in years. It would be interesting to know what the original process was. If we knew that, we could duplicate it in some fashion. 
 Anyone have any ideas on A.R.C. gear with engraved lettering? My 1st guess is a silkscreen type process but with ancient technology (i.e. no computers and graphics software!).
 I do have a thought here though. On an engraved panel, one could first apply the white lettering paint and let it dry. The paint would form a "shallow" in the engraving.That then could be filled with an inhibitor to the black wrinkle. Then it could be carefully cleaned all aroud the engraving and then primed and painted with the final finish.
 Does this make any sense?
 Critics welcome!
                          Jay KE6PPF



-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Eleazer <releazer at earthlink.net>
To: arc5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sat, Oct 8, 2011 2:23 pm
Subject: [ARC5] Winter Project


First, know that here in central Florida we normally have only two seasons: 
ummer and the 4th of July.
But for the portion of the year when the garage is habitable, I have focused on 
inishing the restoration of a BC-348-J I picked up a while back.  It was badly 
ammed up, painted a bilious shade of green and had various holes added and 
thers filled with window glazing putty.  Then it must have been stored in the 
afters of a smokehouse.  I have been working on it for years and only recently 
ound it was a J model instead of a Q by going through the filament string and 
iscovering it has the J configuration.    
 
 was sidetracked for a bit recently when I decided to remove the dynamotor 
ounting chassis for a BC-348-N and replace it with a piece of 1/8 in thick AL 
late.  The dynamotor plate still had its 5 terminal strip in place and I want 
o use it to mount a suitable dynamotor.  The N model had been hammed up as well 
ut the guy did such a good job that I decided to leave it alone; besides it 
orked.
I stripped all the paint off the J model and repainted it with black Krinkle 
inish, a new brand I decided to try that is intended for high temperature 
pplications such as automobile engines.  The paint worked fairly well but when 
 tried to use silver Rub and Buff for the raised lettering I found it looked 
reat but got all over everything.  My fingers are way too large.  I stripped 
he front plate and repainted it again.  I plan to next try a silver Sharpie 
arker.
Meanwhile, we have had 8.25 inches of rain here since last night and it's still 
oming down.   
Wayne 
B5WSV       
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