[Boatanchors] Lighted Meter Dial Reproduction

[Kenneth Grimm]

There was an outfit called Rock-Sea Enterprises that made dials.  However,
the proprietor is now SK I believe.  I'm not aware of anyone else doing
this sort of thing, but there is probably a pretty good market out there.

73,


On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 11:48 PM, Sherry Guttery <comcents at bellsouth.net>wrote:

> On 11/19/2013 9:54 PM, L L bahr wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
> I seem to remember a few years back, there was a person or company that
> made reproduction faces for radios and such - does anyone on this forum
> remember who it was and where they can be found. The same entity may be
> able to make this meter face for Lee.
>
> --
> sherry guttery
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