Re: PDP 8E Panel Paint Chipping - How to seal edges

2015-11-10 Thread rod
Hi Al Thanks for the order - please remind me of your exact requirement Needless to say this is an issue I am all too aware of. This time round as per my updates we are going for a matte finish. My silk screen girls are deciding at which stage to put the matting agent on. They also

Re: PDP 8E Panel Paint Chipping - How to seal edges

2015-11-09 Thread Doug Ingraham
Depends on why it is peeling. My glass panel on the Straight 8 was peeling. I suspect finger oil was what started it and once it started peeling there was no good way to stop it. I scraped back to the color change line and cleaned the glass and repainted. That was around 1985 and it has stayed

Re: PDP 8E Panel Paint Chipping - How to seal edges

2015-11-09 Thread Al Kossow
On 11/9/15 3:04 PM, rod wrote: 2. Screen Print first holes second. That was clearly the case on the panel that I sent scans of to you and I mentioned that they had milled off some of the white lines around the cutouts for the paddle switches.

Re: PDP 8E Panel Paint Chipping - How to seal edges

2015-11-09 Thread Ian Finder
The cause of my panel chipping is very much finger contact at the edge of the cut panel. There is the decay starting at the edge above all the switches and it is worse above the "deposit" switch. The rest of the panel other than these edges seems properly intact, but I am worried about sealing

PDP 8E Panel Paint Chipping - How to seal edges

2015-11-07 Thread Ian Finder
Hi all, I've just emailed Rod Smallwood about a replacement panel, but in the meantime, I have some chipping and curling at the edges of the panel paint near the switches which seems to be getting worse and spreading. Is there a way to seal the curling paint edges to prevent further damage?