Hi Mike You need to contact Total Electronics, http://www.nctotalelectronics.com/index.html#Paints they have the paints you need and know about the decals too. I have been restoring Johnsons and other Vintage AM rigs for a long time and now getting into the Big Iron with a couple of Collins 20V-2s to restore and put on 75M. Good luck and let me knoe if you need anything, I have a spare parts Viking in the shop. Hope this helps. 73 Chris VE3NGW/W4 Florida
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Before I pose my first 2 questions to the group, let me introduce > myself: > I'm Mike, kd0ar, located in Youngstown, OH. I used to be > somewhat active on 75nd 40 a number of years ago, and still > operate very sporadically on 75. I am a broadcast engineer by > trade, and am currently building a brand new night site on 1390 khz, > which is turning out to be a real fun project. My interests are not > only in AM, but in VERY early CW rigs, mostly from the 1920's, > where I homebrewed a little TPTG rig for 80CW,. I am also > contemplating building a class E rig as well (AM PWM on 75). I > have designed a little class E PA for a QRP CW rig I use while > camping and operates on 30 meters. (>90% efficient on 10 MHz by > the way). > > So, here's the meat and potatoes of this post: > > I have recently acquired a Viking one in abysmal cabinet condition. > > I want to make it look pretty, and as original as possible. I have a > couple of questions that perhaps you can help me out with... > > 1- Does anyone make a fairly closely matched paint that would > match the colors of the front panel? My cabinet is crinkle black, and > I do know how to create that effect with the oven, etc... but is the > front panel gray a special color. Also, is the cabinet supposed to be > black? I've seen some Johnsons use a dark maroon color on the > cabinet. Which is correct for the Viking 1 ? > > Second.... some time ago, I had run across a website of a guy who > had or made decals of the Johnson logo. Is this fellow still around > and producing these ? If so, does anyone have his website handy? > > The inside of this transmitter, after cleaning is in pretty darn good > condition and I think a restored example of this rig would make a > fine addition to my rather small collection of AM rigs. > > My current AM shack consists of a Viking 2, Hallicrafters SX-115 > and a National NC300. The audio chain consists of a Gates Yard > feeding a Sta-Level followed by the Gates clipper which together > really cranks the audio. Not one transistor in the (vintage) AM > station here. > > Any help would be GREATLY appreciated regarding the restoration > of this rig. > > Mike, kd0ar > > _______________________________________________ > AMRadio mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio
