10-06-2005, 11:24 PM
Hi Steve,
The escutcheon is original condition. It wasnt painted, appears to have some sort of chemical etching treatment to the metal maybe?
The belt band on the 38-116 (darn digital camera made it look darker than it is in reality) is shaded with toner.... darker on the sides, and light in the middle. As far as I could tell from the original finish, the feet were painted with black paint under the lacquer, not toner. I always take a million pictures of every little detail before I strip, then burn them on a CD for future reference of what the original finish was. If you look at 10 different radios of the same model and year, they are all slightly different. I like to take alot of before pictures as a reference, and to have as a backup if someone tries to say I did it wrong.... I try and duplicate whatever was there as close as humanly possible, sometimes succesful, sometimes not quite.
Currently I'm using an old Binks automotive type gun, with a home made compressor/ air dryer etc, but I'm saving my pennies (and playing the lotto) to get a good HVLP unit. My compressor isnt big enough to really keep up when doing a big radio, like the 38-116, so I've been checking out the hvlp stuff. The Accuspray 10g gun is the "standard" for hvlp --- I'll post a product review when I finally get one.
Take care.
The escutcheon is original condition. It wasnt painted, appears to have some sort of chemical etching treatment to the metal maybe?
The belt band on the 38-116 (darn digital camera made it look darker than it is in reality) is shaded with toner.... darker on the sides, and light in the middle. As far as I could tell from the original finish, the feet were painted with black paint under the lacquer, not toner. I always take a million pictures of every little detail before I strip, then burn them on a CD for future reference of what the original finish was. If you look at 10 different radios of the same model and year, they are all slightly different. I like to take alot of before pictures as a reference, and to have as a backup if someone tries to say I did it wrong.... I try and duplicate whatever was there as close as humanly possible, sometimes succesful, sometimes not quite.
Currently I'm using an old Binks automotive type gun, with a home made compressor/ air dryer etc, but I'm saving my pennies (and playing the lotto) to get a good HVLP unit. My compressor isnt big enough to really keep up when doing a big radio, like the 38-116, so I've been checking out the hvlp stuff. The Accuspray 10g gun is the "standard" for hvlp --- I'll post a product review when I finally get one.
Take care.
