[Boatanchors] hickok 600A disaster!
Ed Hopton
edhopton at yahoo.com
Sun Jul 15 22:13:03 EDT 2007
Yep!
+1 on Novus. I use it to polish plastic pick guards
on guitars and it works great. I doubt you could make
the cover any worse!
I bought a Novus 1, 2, 3 set on Amazon.
73,
Ed N3CMI
--- GDM <1gdm3 at charter.net> wrote:
> Try Novus Polish and Scratch Remover. Used by a lot
> of aircraft owners
> to polish plexiglass. Comes in grades 1,2, and 3,
> with 3 being the
> most abrasive. I have saved a number of plastic
> radio related items
> with it. Try the Fixed Base Operator at your local
> airport or do a
> google search. Its easy to find and you will have
> plenty on hand for
> the future.
>
> 73, Gary W9OAK
>
> eugene at hertzmail.com wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Bought a hickok 600A on epay and I really epaid! I
> had been looking for
> > a tube tester that can do some more modern tubes
> than my I-177B for
> > quite some time. Make a long story short, it came
> and had 2 inch-thick
> > coating of nicotine on the panel (or so it
> seemed). I spent the better
> > part of today trying to clean it up.
> >
> > Well, I did something stupid. One of the cleaners
> I was using must have
> > attacked the plastic meter cover and now it's
> almost completely fogged.
> > At first I thought it was just humidity and I
> removed the cover hoping
> > to wipe it away. Well, although the fog didn't
> wipe away, I was able to
> > use the rag to wipe away the tears hi, hi! At
> least the meter itself
> > looks very good.
> >
> > So here goes another long shot. I am looking for
> one of the following:
> > 1. A nice plastic meter cover
> > 2. Someone who may be willing to try to polish my
> cover (I cannot do it,
> > and I'm not sure it can even be done)
> > 3. A replacement meter. Hopefully something off a
> donor. Not a shiny new
> > expensive one.
> >
> > I know of one tube tester calibration place that
> will sell meters for
> > $125-$180. But that is just an incredible sum of
> money and could never
> > spend that in good conscience (the xyl would
> sooner divorce me!).
> >
> > Well, thanks to anyone who can help.
> > Eugene w2hx
> >
> >
> >
> >
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