[Hammarlund] HQ-150 Panel Lettering

[Les Locklear]

I have had several HQ-
150's pass through my hands. You are correct, the letter is "raised" however, all that I've 
owned or looked at had white lettering. 
The cleaning and polishing you performed probably removed the scant coat of 
white on the lettering.
 
Les Locklear

 

----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Martin via Hammarlund <hammarlund at mailman.qth.net>
Reply-To: Dan Martin <pitfit at comcast.net>
To: <hammarlund at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: 3/22/2025 10:25:51 AM
Subject: [Hammarlund] HQ-150 Panel Lettering



Working with an HQ-150 panel here and after washing and polishing the panel the 
raised control lettering gleams and glistens in its unfinished aluminum style. 
Unfortunately, at most angles of viewing and light the lettering is almost 
invisible and unreadable in contrast to the painted panel surface.

I’ve worked with a number of HQ-140’s and 150’s in the past and currently have 
two others in the shop, all with white raised panel letters.

As these are >raised<, not >engraved< characters, a white waxed pencil/paint 
stick fill-in and a swipe of a cloth with WD-40 (etc.) won’t fix this.

Ideas? It’s a pretty panel but at typical desktop viewing angles the knob and 
control legends cannot really be read.

I’m sure my panel cleaning did not cause this since I noticed the lettering was 
not white and in contrast to the panel when it arrived in my shop, prior to 
cleaning. Did Hammarlund have a run of raised unfinished aluminum panel 
markings?

Dan
WB4GRA



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