[Milsurplus] White filling material for lettering

[Ray Fantini]

Be careful repainting or restoring the front panel of the US-9, many of the Russian radios of that era used heavy doses of radium paint on the lettering. Way worse than the US stuff, sometime in the fifties or later, cretin someone will post the exact date the US stopped using radium laced paint for instruments and went to some other element with a short half life but the Russians kept using radium laced paints for instruments and control labels well into the seventies and maybe later on aircraft radios. At least with US stuff it was all behind glass and sealed in except for some things like the TBY but the Russians just painted that stuff right on the front panel. If you did strip the paint off the front panel I would not tell anyone!
KA3EKH

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Hi All,

Know this has been covered a million times, but what is the best way to fill in engraved lettering?  I have to refinish the front panel of my YC-9 (US-9 Russian BC-348.  I remember that there was something that could be rubbed in after painting that could then be whiped off before it dried.  Can't remeber what it was or if it was all that great.

Thanks,

John  WD5ENU/A45XV