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Well I managed to get the dial to work on decal paper, transferred on to plexi-glass. The good news is the ink jet decal paper doesn't print white, so any of the white areas were left clear. Which is good so that the dial pointer shows through. The bad news is, since most of the graphics were a light cream color / off white, I had to make them darker so they would print. Now the original dial background was black, and with these darker colors, the graphics wouldn't show up very well. So, I simply glued some white paper over the black dial face and turned it into a white dial face! Now the graphics show through nice and clear....

   

   

For what amounts to Crosley's equivalent of Philco's Transitone line, I think this will be an acceptable fix. I couldn't see spending $40 to have a dial scale professionally made, when I only paid $10 for the radio itself! It's not a very valuable or desirable radio even in restored condition.

Greg V.
West Bend, WI
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