[ARC5] Advice requested...

[Richard Knoppow]

      FWIW  Federal Telephone and Radio was owned by ITT the parent 
company of MacKay Radio and probably built all of these receivers. When 
old gray or black paint looks greenish it might be oxidized MFP lacquer 
especially if its somewhat blotchy.

On 4/17/2015 6:14 PM, Robert Nickels wrote:
> On 4/17/2015 7:39 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon wrote:
>> And here is my request: the color is a sort of green. It is very
>> difficult for me to tell exactly what shade of green, and I am hoping
>> someone here can tell me what the shade is so when I refinish the thing,
>> I will have a close match to the color of the original receiver.
> Well mine's made by Federal,  Ken, but the best description of the 
> color would be "OD".  I'm not sure that means a lot as they could have 
> painted 'em a different color than Mackay did, and I know it was also 
> common for the marine manufacturers to do custom paint colors to meet 
> customer requests or for a full ships ratio panel. Anyhow, mine's 
> khaki or OD or $@%& green, I'm sure you know the shade I'm talking 
> about ;-)     This image is not of great quality but it's the only one 
> I found online: http://www.ohio.edu/people/postr/bapix/mackay.htm
>
> More interestingly to me at least, is the lettering on the Mackay 
> raised also?  Or how is it applied?   On the Federal all panel 
> markings including the logo and decorative stuff is raised above the 
> level of the panel (which is to say, the panel was photochemically 
> etched to a lower level, allowing the raised lettering to stand 
> above.   It's really neat, just the opposite of what we're familiar 
> with for engraved panels, and certainly would be easy to refinish 
> (wonder if that's why they did it?).   Mine has several cool ink 
> stampings and other cool stuff that I wouldn't want to disturb, plus 
> the panel is in good shape, but of course I never would come across a 
> panel made this way that was trashed ;-)   Happy listening "down there".
>
> 73, Bob W9RAN
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Richard Knoppow
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WB6KBL