[Boatanchors] Lighted Meter Dial Reproduction

[LeeCraner at aol.com]

Lee,
 
I was successful in creating a translucent dial face for my Central  
Electronics 200V transmitter.  Pictures and a brief write up are on my web  site 
at:
 
http://www.emmittsfixitshop.com/Projects_CE200V.html
 
It is about half way down the page.  Perhaps something similar can be  done 
with your 300.
 
73 es GL
Lee WB6SSW
 
 
In a message dated 11/20/2013 1:30:06 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
pulsarxp at embarqmail.com writes:


Bill  Cromwell, KU8H appropriately pointed out to me I need a translucent 
dial face  and not an opaque one. Thanks, Bill.  I must have had a senior 
moment  there!

Lee, w0vt




I'm in the process of restoring a  fairly sad WRL Globe Champion 300 
transmitter.  It's meter is a  disaster.  Right now I have a donor meter having a 
similar front cover ,  so I have that base covered.  I also obtained another 
meter for a WRL  transmitter but the scale in it is wrong.  My original 
meter is working,  but the dial is VERY orange.  I am assuming the dial was 
once white and  not orange and over time heat from the back lite lamp inside 
the meter has  yellowed the plastic dial face to where it is now orange.  

I  would like to make a new dial face for my meter.  I see a lot of help on 
 the internet on how to reproduce a non lighted meter face but nothing on a 
 lite one.  How do you print to fairly inflexible opaque sheet? (Light has  
to go through the meter dial face.)  I'm pretty sure if I can accomplish  
the above I'll move over to a LED lamp to reduce heat in the meter so it does 
 not happen again.  The only thing I can think of is printing on some kind  
of white paper allowing light to penetrate and then laminating it before  
cutting to size and installing on the meter.  I don't think a LED  
replacement lamp would affect the laminated new dial face.  Another  possibility I 
thought might work would be to print the scale on overhead Mylar  projection 
sheet and then somehow attaching it in a sandwich with opaque white  plastic 
sheet.

Is there anyone on here who has gone before me and  perfected a way to make 
a new meter face for a lighted meter?  I sure  could use some ideas on this 
one.  I have a new VFO dial cover, a new  meter cover and someone lined up 
to re-silk screen my front panel.  None  of this is going to look good with 
my ORANGE meter dial face.   HELP!!!

Lee,  w0vt
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