[R-390] Anyone getting a front panel silkscreened?

[Roy Morgan]

At 10:59 AM 12/5/2005, you wrote:
>... filling in the engravings in an R390A a front panel and will have it 
>powder-coated and then will need it silk-screened.
>I'm wondering if there is any kind of price break if more than one panel is
>done at a time?


Barry,

It depends on who the supplier is.. and what you are having done.

Howard Mills has some black powder coated, silk-screened panels. You send 
your usable panel plus $150 to him and you get a completed panel back. I 
don't know about discounts for quantity, and I don't know if that covers 
shipping. Usable means no dents or holes.. and I think it should be a 
previously screened panel so he does not have to fill in the stampings. Do 
check that the matierial you are using to fill the stampings would stand 
the heat of the powder coat process.  Repair or metalwork on your sent 
panel means you pay more.  As I understand it, you get an already done 
panel back, not your original one.

Hank Arney has had refinished panels also, check the archives or email him 
for details.
Dan Arney <hankarn at pacbell.net>

If you are having a silk screen MADE FOR YOU, and then used to screen 
panels you provide, it will cost less per panel to do a bunch. Making the 
silk screen may cost you $350 or more.  Then they (whoever "they" are) will 
charge a setup charge an an amount per piece to do the screening.  If you 
are doing just one or two, don't plan to get a screen made and have it be 
economical.  Final costs *per panel* might be $400.

If you were going to do a hundred panels, the cost of  making the 
silkscreen would not be too important, and the cost per panel would be much 
lower, especially if you had the hundred panels to send to the screener all 
at once.

Powder coating is similar: setup charge plus per piece charge.  Then there 
is the paint/powder needed.

I say get one from Hank (gray) or Howard (black)

The black is nice. An added "bonus" is that it will irritate the 
total-originality-at-all-costs folks.  Yes, there were black faced R-390A's 
made that way, presumably for a three-letter agency.  And presumably very 
few of them.  The panels Howard has are quite stunning. Quite.  Most likely 
he could get your CY-979 cabinet powder coated black to match the next time 
he does a KW-1 cabinet.  Which might be soon. Very soon.

"Howard Mills W3HM" <w3hm at nfis.com>
304-876-6483

Roy


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