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RE: Mikes 16B - OldRestorer - 04-10-2015

Har Har Har...

Anyway, on another note.

Which one is it?

Kirk

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RE: Mikes 16B - morzh - 04-10-2015

Like I said....Ron is the expert. Unless someome else knows for sure.
If there is a decal. Which I think should be there.

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RE: Mikes 16B - Eliot Ness - 04-10-2015

Kirk, are you using the veneer repair method where you tightly clamp a slightly oversize piece of veneer and then sand off the excess?

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RE: Mikes 16B - morzh - 04-10-2015

I think Kirk at some point described his method and it was different. The only oversize is the one outside the external wall (bezel) contour, unless you mean this oversize.

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RE: Mikes 16B - OldRestorer - 04-10-2015

Yes,
I am trying this method since it is the face of the radio. If it works well, good!
If not , it is Mikes radio so what the hockey stix do I care!

Kirk

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RE: Mikes 16B - Eliot Ness - 04-10-2015

Please take some pictures before the sanding; that's a technique I've been wanting to try.

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RE: Mikes 16B - OldRestorer - 04-11-2015

Will do!

Kirk

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RE: Mikes 16B - OldRestorer - 04-11-2015

Unclamped, sanded with block, and they look pretty darn good!

Toner will hide all the little imperfections.

A few more repairs and the face is DONE!

Here are the pics:

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RE: Mikes 16B - Eliot Ness - 04-11-2015

Very nice  

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RE: Mikes 16B - PhilcoJohn - 04-11-2015

Good work Kirk!! Very time cosuming I would think. I dont have the paients for that I do not think.

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RE: Mikes 16B - OldRestorer - 04-14-2015

Almost done with the face.

Gluing number 5 today and a last one tomorrow if I have time.

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RE: Mikes 16B - morzh - 04-14-2015

It looks so....helpless

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RE: Mikes 16B - OldRestorer - 04-15-2015

Face is done and stripped.

The stripping was a pain. For some reason the thinner was not working.

Had to sand most of it off.

Next is to re-attach the arch to the front and then try to repair all the veneer and the gouges and the punctures.

Any ideas on those?

I will try water and the heat gun first to see if I can get any to raise.

Here she is now.

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RE: Mikes 16B - morzh - 04-15-2015

Looks like new. New unpainted IKEA furniture

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RE: Mikes 16B - OldRestorer - 04-15-2015

I could always paint it. That would make the repairs easier. Could use wood filler all over and give it a nice white and black lacquer finish.....

Should I? could I? Would I?

Ok back to work,

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