[Elecraft] Inventory - construction - etc

Thu Mar 28 04:46:03 2002

See if you can strip all the paint off-and whether you can do that or
not, find some black epoxy paint (supposedly used for refrigerators-but
I've never seen one [a refrigerator] that color.) Bake the knob at a low
temp (at your oven's lowest setting) if you can get away with it. More
than one coat/etc. would be nice-again if you can manage it. 

But even without the baking, it'll be better paint than what you
describe. 

If you cannot manage the epoxy paint... try 'regular' paint, and follow
it (a couple of days 'curing' per coat) with several coats of
polyurethane (clear-gloss... semigloss... whatever.) You can "cure" the
polyurethane by misting it with water. Polyurethane paints 'cure' using
the moisture in the air. I once 'hardened' a window-shelf that way. Best
looking, toughest paint job I ever did. Even the dog's claws and both
son's growing up around it have only scratched it (barely) once or twice
in over 15 years.

73  Ed Tanton  N4XY  <[email protected]>

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One annoying little problem.  A couple of spots of the black coating on
the front face of the knob have come off exposing the aluminium layer
below.  I have tried touching these up with marker pen but it wears off
again very quickly.  Any known solution to this problem?

73s Dave G3YMC
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