[Boatanchors] Jefferson Travis JT-350

[parinc1]

Hi Paul,
My experience is with a LOT of amateur BA restoration and must admit to never having worked on a JT-350.
If the  dial where the markings are is flat, then  you could use a CAD or design program to lay out new artwork and then  create water slip decals. I have done this numerous times. That is how this WRL DuoBander front panel was redone:
https://www.parelectronics.com/vintage-wrl-duobander.php

GL- let us know,
Dale W4OP
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From: Paul Thekan <pfthekan at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 8, 2024 5:40 PM
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Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Jefferson Travis JT-350

Dale
Tnx for the tip...but it would seem to me to be counterintuitive as plain water took off the dial markings...but the dial markings are not paint per say like on a cabinet or panel.
I will try it in a small spot when I get the chance and will let you know.
Tnx
Paul


On Thu, Feb 8, 2024, 2:19 PM parinc1 <parinc1 at frontier.com<mailto:parinc1 at frontier.com>> wrote:
This might seem odd, but I have found mineral spirits/turpentine  will clean off all sorts of gunk w/o touching the paint. Best to try it  on  an are that would not be seen if it does affect paint.
Dale W4OP
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Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Jefferson Travis JT-350

    Might it be possible to photograph the dials, use a graphics editor
like Gimp or Photoshop to clean the dirt from the photo and use it to
print new numbers on the old dial after cleaning it?
    I suspect that any solvent capable of taking the oil/grease off
would dissolve the lettering or even the dial material.

On 2/8/2024 10:46 AM, Paul Thekan wrote:
> G'day all
>
> I have this JT-350 xmtr/rcvr that will need quite a bit of work. But what's
> going to be a problem is cleaning the dials as there is these drips of goo
> on the dials I can't remove without also removing the freq dial markings.
> Ive used water and and a tad of dish washing soap and then just using plain
> water on Q tip with no luck without damaging the dial markings.
>
>   Hoping that there might be a junker or donor radio that I can salvage the
> dials from.Would consider buying the whole radio if someone would consider
> to have it shipped.
>   Thanks  for any help or suggestions...
>
> Paul
> N6FEG

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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
SKCC 19998
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