The PHILCO Phorum

I'm all but done with the restoration on my GE FE-112, but I'm missing the dial string indicator for the Off/On/Tone section of my dial face.

Any ideas where I can find something that will work? This is the volume indicator...I'd need another one just like it.

PS-Image is sideways.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Huge-Lot-Assorte...SwqF9ZvwpM

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-Radio-Pa...Sw3eJZz7Cr

Yeah. I saw those too. I was hoping to not blow $50 on a hodge podge of parts only to find none of them worked....

Well, this one looks like something that one could easily fashion out of a piece of a tin can cut with scissors, bent appropriately and painted red.

To get an exact match you might need to buy a parts chassis or get real lucky on eBay.

You might be able to find and modify a pointer from a different set to look pretty close.... when it's all closed up you probably only see the tip of the pointer anyway.  This is where a Dremel tool, small files, tin snips, etc. come in handy.

I bought some aluminum roof flashing from Lowes or Home Depot a few years ago and it looks like it would be pretty easy to cut and bend.  I can cut off an index card size piece and mail it to you in an envelope if you send me your address.

I made a pointer out of sheet metal from the cover of a wrecked Sony home theater map, and I mean wrecked. I sort of cheated though, I didn't make the pair that slide along the track and slips over the dial cord, I got that part from a broken dial pointer off of something else, and then soldered the strip of sheet metal from the Sony cover to it. I pretty much had to make it, it was a dial pointer for a Guild Spice Chest radio, it was a metal strip bent into a loop that was supposed to poke out through a slot in the middle of the dial, the G.E one will be easier since you already have an original as a model.
Regards
Arran

Thanks for the offer, but I just "reboxed" it and will enjoy eventually hunting down a replacement. My daughter set her sights on this one so it should be in the family for a while.

That's one spiffy looking set!

A big ole 11 tuber. One of the most selective sets I've done. Best SW reception of any set I've worked on.