[Milsurplus] RE: ENGRAVED R-390A panels

[hankkarn]

Well gang there is light at the end of the tunnel.
After Murphy's umpteenth visit they are now filled and if Murphy will 
hide out  through Monday I will get the panels in the UPS.

After absorbing the cost of   running all of the panels on the front 
side to get rid of 99% of the defects and to protect the  identity of 
the panels on the rear. they were not run on that side.
In the process of running the panels some of the due to very MINOR 
thickness some of the had to be shimmed up more than once. The run time 
increased considerably. They had to stop , insert shims, lock down and 
run again. Some of the fillings maybe a little light due to the CNC had 
to be changed at some points for each panel. Time + money. The engraving 
is to the drawing PERIOD.
I just hope all of you can accept the results as I lost a lot of time on 
this deal and can assure you for sure I made nothing on the this total 
fiasco. This is due to the fact about 15 people that had said they were 
going to participate flaked out. So all I can really say is what you see 
is what you get.

Without going into all of the gory details of the CNC problems, along 
with the powder coating screw up due to only doing the front side,   We 
had to have the rear side silk screened, due to the overspray from the 
front, it was to rough, so it had to be wet sanded, silk screened again, 
baked and the silk screened with the original rear panel markings.
 
Anyone that wants to refill or have some for other jobs what I used is 
Liquitex Acrylic artist color Titanium White  single pigment.
2 fld. oz tube cost about $6.00 and should be able to do about 200 
panels Hi.

Sorry for all of the delays.
Thanks es 73,
Hank
KN6DI
Hope you enjoy.
My Nomex/Kevlar suit is on so have at it.