[ARC5] Antenna Current Meter Needed

[J. Forster]

Well, I have no intent to strip any of my radios.

Most all are very near NOS with only small areas (like 1 or 2) under 1/4"
OD and I's like to just touch up those very few small chips.

-John

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> On 5 May 2014 at 12:25, J. Forster wrote:
>
>> Do you paint large areas?
>
> Well, it sort of depends on what you mean by "large"...
>
> The top cover for an ARC-5 reciver is "large", but I have also done whole
> RAL cabinets too.
>
>> I'm mostly interested in touching up small
>> areas, under 1/4" in diameter. I spray the paint into a saucer, then
>> apply
>> with a small artist's brush. I've not gotten good results.
>
> Hmmm.....well....let me think about that for a bit. The first thing that
> comes to
> my mind about that method is that the amount and consistency of any
> wrinkle paint applied by that method would be too thin and possibly not
> contain all the necessary ingredients to get a good wrinkle.
>
> To get a good wrinkle, the paint has to be thicker than normal.
>
> I have found that I get far better results by stripping all the old paint
> off and
> completely repainting the whole piece.
>
> Those times I have touched up wrinkle paint in areas under 1/4" in size,
> (usually under 1/8" in size in fact) I have used flat black model paint
> with
> good effect. The differences aren't very noticable. But the paint had to
> be
> flat-black, not gloss black. Gloss-black sticks out like a sore thumb.
>
> Ken W7EKB
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