I did this recently with a national receiver that I repainted. A white lacquer stick will do a good job filling in the depression. I used artist's paint with no thinner and a small brush to dab it into the recessed area. I wiped it off with a dry paper towel. You will not get all of it off, but after it dries, you can use a polishing compound, very fine sand paper or steel wool to remove the very small amount of excess. Then car wax to polish the entire panel.
arnie - W1GCI -----Original Message----- From: BILL GUYGER [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 01:13 PM To: 'Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service' Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Painting recessed panell markings Since your panel is painted this might not be good info, but on anodized panels you wipe or brush some fill paint (white enamel maybe?) over the engraved nomenclature and wipe off the excess with a rag dampened with the proper solvent for the paint you're using. I have seen engraving / machine shop people use a tooth pick to dab paint into engraved letters. When wiping off the excess it might help to use a rag that's stretched over a flat piece of plastic or wood so that your fingers aren't actually pushing the cleaning rag down into the letters / numbers and removing paint you want to remain in place. If you've painted the panel with enamel, I guess you could fill the nomenclature with Latex paint and use a rag dampened with water which shouldn't hurt the panel's finish. Bill AD5OL ________________________________ From: "[email protected]" To: amradio Sent: Tue, May 11, 2010 10:51:27 PM Subject: [AMRadio] Painting recessed panell markings I need some direction on how to fill paint the control markings on a front panel with recessed panel markings. I have repainted the panel of a Hickok 533 tube tester and now need to restore the markings Thanks Carl WD8MFB ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: [email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5a mi.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: [email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: [email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
