[Milsurplus] Painting radios

[Jerry Lofstead]

Anybody know what bake temperature and average time for oil based 
paints??  I guess you could not bake an acrylic that is water based???

Jerry
W3CDE

Ray Robinson wrote:

>Hi Dean,
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>>I am preparing to repaint the front face of a BC653A with black 
>>"wrinkle paint".  The face plate has reaied letters that are NOT 
>>supposed to be obscured by the black paint; rather, they are supposed 
>>to be uncovered so that they can be read.  The lettering is rather 
>>small and is raised only 1-2 mm from the face plate surface at most.
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>If the lettering is raised, then great.
>Just paint the panel with black wrinkle, bake it in the domestic oven,
>make the paint hard.
>Get out you head magnifier and a razor blade,
>and carefully scrape the paint off the raised lettering, 
>works fine, good results, be patient.
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>If the lettering is engraved,
>then paint as before,
>get out a scribe, and scrape the paint out of the grooves,
>exposing the aluminium underneath.
>Not as good results as above,
>but looks reasonable (if you don't look too close).
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>If the paint is screen printed on,
>then your only option is to make a screen.
>I've never done this.
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>73
>Ray vk2ilv
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