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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.
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People who do not drink, do not smoke, do not eat red meat will one day feel really stupid lying there and dying from nothing.
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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....
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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That's one spiffy looking set!
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