[R-390] Please post to list

[Barry Hauser]

My theory is that the panels started out a bit thicker than final.  The 
lettering was punched on a punch press -- possibly one of two halves at a 
time.

Then, the panel was sanded down or milled to clean up and provide sharp 
edges to the lettering -- i.e. get rid of the dimples that punching would 
likely cause.  That would also clean up any deep scratches that might occur 
when handling stacks of panels.

I have two R-390/URR's and two R-391/URR's.  All four panels have 
punched/stamped/engraved/carved/indented/etched/fillagreed, not 
silk-screened, lettering.

Has anyone ever found a panel that was depot or factory redone whereby the 
original lettering was filled in and the thing was silk-screened?  Maybe 
some are stamped, but in mufti.

I dunno, these dead horses keep jumpin' up and bolting out of the corral. 
Just be grateful they don't kick us in the head.  The fact is, most of these 
reprise issues are never totally resolved, so the horses aren't dead at all. 
They're just playin' 'possum with one eye open waiting for an opportunity to 
rear up and do what they do.  Put another way -- old threads never die, they 
only lurk away.

Barry



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Foley" <redmenaced at yahoo.com>
To: <r-390 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 5:37 PM
Subject: Re: [R-390] Please post to list


> Mine's engraved/punched/stamped.
>
> Joe
>
>
>
> --- Llgpt at aol.com wrote:
>>
>> Yes, both types of panels, although the
>> silk-screened were more  abundant.
>>
>> Les
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 4/22/2005 2:26:45 PM Central
>> Daylight Time,
>> chacuff at cableone.net writes:
>>
>> Did they  make engraved R-390/URR panels....all I
>> have seen (only a few) were
>> silk  screened?
>>