15-07-2015, 07:58 AM
(This post was last modified: 15-07-2015, 08:09 AM by Radio Fixer.)
Yes! so very Philips but a nice radio now completed. I must say that the cabinet looks very good with the water based lacquers that I hope never to have to get to grips with. I have a stock of cellulose that may be enough ...
The dial on the D57 Monoknob I'm doing, started in the early winter last year, had a much worse dial than yours. So I redrew it in CorelDraw and had the artwork turned into a silk screen. Only needed one screen and how I did it is in an article in the Autumn Bulletin. Far better than sticking films to the glass that would in your case look worse than the original. What do you stick it with that doesn't show? Sandwich it between two pieces of glass and it looks wrong optically as you get moire effects. Not good enough for me.
The old dial even cleaned up was useless as the white backing paint was now opaque: the glass rod pointer, which is behind, could not be seen apart from the damage to the gold.
Gary
The dial on the D57 Monoknob I'm doing, started in the early winter last year, had a much worse dial than yours. So I redrew it in CorelDraw and had the artwork turned into a silk screen. Only needed one screen and how I did it is in an article in the Autumn Bulletin. Far better than sticking films to the glass that would in your case look worse than the original. What do you stick it with that doesn't show? Sandwich it between two pieces of glass and it looks wrong optically as you get moire effects. Not good enough for me.
The old dial even cleaned up was useless as the white backing paint was now opaque: the glass rod pointer, which is behind, could not be seen apart from the damage to the gold.
Gary
