21-05-2013, 11:34 AM
(This post was last modified: 21-05-2013, 11:42 AM by Radio Fixer.)
Thanks for the kind remarks David. I really enjoyed doing this radio.
Yes! Mohawk, I use is rattle cans, too late now to invest in spray gun equipment although if I had done it at the start of getting into the hobby!! But I was only going to do one or two. I'm going to investigate asking a local body shop, friendly guy, for how much to spray if I do all the prep.
As to the staining I made the colour lighter than it was. The original lacquer was the thickest I have ever come across, it seemed like mm's thick so probably had aged darker. It was so dark that all the attractive marquetry couldn't be seen unless under flood lights.
No other TRF that I have ever worked on had almost constant bandwidth all the way across the wavebands and with excellent selectivity as well. That is a really impressive thing to have achieved in a domestic radio. It was Superhet performance but of course eventually production cost killed them off.
Gary
Yes! Mohawk, I use is rattle cans, too late now to invest in spray gun equipment although if I had done it at the start of getting into the hobby!! But I was only going to do one or two. I'm going to investigate asking a local body shop, friendly guy, for how much to spray if I do all the prep.
As to the staining I made the colour lighter than it was. The original lacquer was the thickest I have ever come across, it seemed like mm's thick so probably had aged darker. It was so dark that all the attractive marquetry couldn't be seen unless under flood lights.
No other TRF that I have ever worked on had almost constant bandwidth all the way across the wavebands and with excellent selectivity as well. That is a really impressive thing to have achieved in a domestic radio. It was Superhet performance but of course eventually production cost killed them off.
Gary
