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Radio Daze dials
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(06-12-2016, 08:35 AM)Ron Ramirez Wrote:  Anyone can make laminated plastic dials, it's easy. I've made some. You need to have, or know someone with, a laminator.

The trouble with laminated dials is that the light does not shine through very well. A bright LED lamp in place of the original incandescent bulb helps.

Of course, silkscreened translucent plastic dials are far superior to laminated ones if you can get them.

We're lucky to have Radio Daze, really. They have made, and are making, parts available that we would not be able to have otherwise and it is apparent they are trying hard to be a good "one-stop" shop for our radio needs.

Ron;
  That reminds me of something I read about on the alternative forum a few years ago. A guy on there needed a dial reproduced and he found some sort of sign making business that could print letters on glass. It think that it cost him something like $39 for the one dial but once they had the graphics down the cost dropped with quantity. This must be the same sort of process that Radio Daze is using since they can make one off dials for a relatively affordable price. Now if someone could work on making reproduction etched glass dials, or mirrored dials, I would guess that they used some sort of photographic process much like etching circuit boards, fortunately original etched dials are easy to repaint so breakage is the only real issue.
Regards
Arran


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Radio Daze dials - by leftwing25 - 06-07-2016, 05:05 PM
RE: Radio Daze dials - by morzh - 06-07-2016, 06:03 PM
RE: Radio Daze dials - by leftwing25 - 06-07-2016, 06:10 PM
RE: Radio Daze dials - by Radioroslyn - 06-07-2016, 06:41 PM
RE: Radio Daze dials - by markmokris - 06-08-2016, 07:34 AM
RE: Radio Daze dials - by Paul Philco322 - 06-08-2016, 07:40 AM
RE: Radio Daze dials - by Ron Ramirez - 06-08-2016, 08:39 AM
RE: Radio Daze dials - by Squire - 06-08-2016, 11:17 AM
RE: Radio Daze dials - by TimC - 06-08-2016, 03:45 PM
RE: Radio Daze dials - by leftwing25 - 06-08-2016, 10:10 PM
RE: Radio Daze dials - by shaler78 - 06-08-2016, 10:17 PM
RE: Radio Daze dials - by leftwing25 - 06-08-2016, 10:38 PM
RE: Radio Daze dials - by JimZ - 06-09-2016, 07:58 AM
RE: Radio Daze dials - by leftwing25 - 06-10-2016, 05:10 PM
RE: Radio Daze dials - by Arran - 06-12-2016, 03:37 AM
RE: Radio Daze dials - by TimC - 06-10-2016, 01:12 PM
RE: Radio Daze dials - by leftwing25 - 06-10-2016, 04:04 PM
RE: Radio Daze dials - by TimC - 06-10-2016, 06:17 PM
RE: Radio Daze dials - by leftwing25 - 06-10-2016, 07:40 PM
RE: Radio Daze dials - by TimC - 06-10-2016, 09:10 PM
RE: Radio Daze dials - by leftwing25 - 06-10-2016, 09:29 PM
RE: Radio Daze dials - by joybird - 06-11-2016, 01:42 PM
RE: Radio Daze dials - by palegreenthumb - 06-11-2016, 03:28 PM
RE: Radio Daze dials - by klondike98 - 06-12-2016, 08:18 AM
RE: Radio Daze dials - by Ron Ramirez - 06-12-2016, 08:35 AM
RE: Radio Daze dials - by joybird - 06-12-2016, 09:39 AM
RE: Radio Daze dials - by Arran - 06-13-2016, 03:48 AM
RE: Radio Daze dials - by Warren - 06-12-2016, 08:40 PM
RE: Radio Daze dials - by Nick3092 - 06-17-2016, 11:59 PM
RE: Radio Daze dials - by Arran - 06-20-2016, 04:06 AM
RE: Radio Daze dials - by Nick3092 - 06-20-2016, 06:19 PM



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