[R-390] Panel meters again

[Cecil]

They may fit the holes but will require drilling the panel for the attachment screws.  That coupled with the mods necessary to make one function as an "S" meter properly and the cost ($60 + s/h ea.) puts my vote squarely in the Find an Original pair column.
Their still out there...a bit hard to find at times and no more expensive.

Just my 2 cents worth..

Cecil

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> On Oct 29, 2014, at 4:05 AM, Grayson Evans <wa4gvm at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I am looking for replacement panel meters for my 390A.  Not original, but more modern meters that will fit the holes.
> I notice there have been very long threads on this subject many years ago (the thread I have is dated 1999, hundreds of posts), which really didn’t seem to resolve much except the specs for the meters.
> Wondering if anyone found a source they like lately.
> (the meters on the restoration I am working on are in pretty bad shape, but I am rebuilding them to keep as spares)
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> I found this company that makes a great looking replacement for the line level meter, but I am not sure they are actually available:
> http://www.sifammeters.com
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> ebay has a zillion sellers of various conventional analog meters, most very inexpensive, but didn’t see one I liked.  It is fairly easy to modify the meter for the correct scale, and put a new printed scale on it (done it many times), if I can figure out the actual range of the meter movement (for example a labeled 0-100V meter is probably a 0-1 ma meter movement with a scaling resistor inside the case).
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