[ICOM] Icom 761 Glass cleaning

Gary Fiber gfiber at comcast.net
Thu Dec 20 11:25:40 EST 2007


Dick,

You are correct there is a relief in the " glass". It is not real 
easy to remove.

Another here mentioned removal of the entire front face plate. Thats 
on too but you need to watch out to keep from crushing switches on some models.

Gary K8IZ

At 08:11 AM 12/20/2007, you wrote:
>My 2 cents worth.
>
>I removed the glass a while back on my IC-751A.  I was attempting to remove
>it with a razor blade as I recall.  It seems that over the years I had
>forgotten that the aluminum is slightly recessed into the glass.  That fact
>changed my approach to removing it.
>
>After re-realizing that, I found I could use the razor blade by inserting it
>at the top of the strip and prying it out of the shallow recess.  A bit of
>fulcrum-like effort is required.
>
>At least that is to the best of my recollection of some months ago.
>
>Gary, can you verify this?
>
>
>Regards,
>Dick - KA5KKT/4
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