13-01-2013, 12:43 PM
I try not to get anything other than Murphy but I could not resist a 3028 for £10 whilst I was collecting a Murphy.
The dial glass has two areas top left and top right, the peeling on this unit is purely due to two rectangles of 4x1 inch sellotape (or German equivalent) stuck onto the back during manufacture, then this has peeled as the tape has shrunk with age.
To repair this I need to find what the colours of the paint were. To get an exact match of the brown and gold.
It then has some lines and text (AERIAL DIRECTION & STATION TUNING)
I can see two ways to fix this based upon the methods I have used to recreate Murphy dials.
One would be to just fix up the damaged bit, probably what I will do, or the other is to recreate the whole dial, on a new bit of glass.
Either way I use corel draw to recreate the dial or dial area, then set the different colours on layers. Then I paint the colour in the Grundigs case brown, then use a laser to burn off the text for the writing at 600 dpi, then paint over this in gold, finally use the laser again to burn off the stuff that needs to be clear.
I have access to a Laser at Fablab in Manchester
I still need to get the skill to match the paint.
The dial glass has two areas top left and top right, the peeling on this unit is purely due to two rectangles of 4x1 inch sellotape (or German equivalent) stuck onto the back during manufacture, then this has peeled as the tape has shrunk with age.
To repair this I need to find what the colours of the paint were. To get an exact match of the brown and gold.
It then has some lines and text (AERIAL DIRECTION & STATION TUNING)
I can see two ways to fix this based upon the methods I have used to recreate Murphy dials.
One would be to just fix up the damaged bit, probably what I will do, or the other is to recreate the whole dial, on a new bit of glass.
Either way I use corel draw to recreate the dial or dial area, then set the different colours on layers. Then I paint the colour in the Grundigs case brown, then use a laser to burn off the text for the writing at 600 dpi, then paint over this in gold, finally use the laser again to burn off the stuff that needs to be clear.
I have access to a Laser at Fablab in Manchester
I still need to get the skill to match the paint.
