[R-390] Panel Painting Advice

[Grayson Evans]

Thanks for that advice on the panel.
I thought about masking off the lettering somehow, either with masking tape, or a scotch tape of some kind.  This might work, but my problem is about 25% of the white lettering is worn away enough to look crummy. 

Back in my architecture days I used a lot of the rub on (dry transfer) lettering.  I see that it is still made, although in greatly reduced fonts/sizes/colors. 
It is tedious, but probably about the same as masking it off.  To have to give the panel a light coat of clear acrylic once the letters are on.  I might get a sheet and try it out on the panel as is to see what it looks like. 
I swear I remember, way back, maybe 20-25 years ago I bought a sheet that had premade “radio” labels on it like ON / OFF / VOLUME, GAIN, etc.  Too good to be true now.

Grayson

On Apr 7, 2015, at 6:51 PM, k2cby at optonline.net wrote:

> Some years ago I had excellent results painting the stenciled panel on an
> early Motorola R-390A. I cleaned the panel as thoroughly as possible with
> Naphtha, followed by alcohol. I then masked off the white-painted areas with
> Scotch Type 811 Removable tape (pale blue box), trimming the edges as close
> to the lettering as possible with an Xacto knife. I then shot the panel with
> several very light coats of Tru Value Machine Gray, which is an excellent
> match to the original. After the paint dried, I peeled off the Scotch tape,
> using the Xacto knife to lift the edges. To make everything blend, I gave
> the entire panel a shot of Krylon Crystal Clear acrylic. This effectively
> hid the edges where the tape had been applied.
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