29 Sep
2016
29 Sep
'16
12:05 a.m.
Hi Ethan,
On my 11/45, the big power supply regulator stickers on the back of the CPU cabinet were
also badly damaged. As part of my restore, I went to some effort to make suitable
replacements. The originals were white on clear.
I found that stickeryou.com did a nice job with white on clear (look under their ?Clear
Stickers? category). It?s a little pricey at $18 for a single page, but the two big power
supply stickers I needed were most of a page so I went for it, and was pleased with the
results. I?ll put a pic of this up on my blog soon in case others are interested in how
this turned out.
I would still like to replace the exact sticker you linked to below, but couldn?t justify
a whole page to get just that one small sticker?. Please let me know if you would like to
put together a full page of various smaller stickers and split the cost, though!
A black on white vinyl process would probably also look okay for some of the smaller
stickers, I think, if you could get a laser print with a suitably dense and uniform black
field. Interested in hearing if some of the other restorers here have different/better
suggestions for this.
For the smallest stickers in my restore (connector/plug labels where I was not
particularly concerned with matching artwork/fonts) I have been using a Brother P-touch
labeler with black-on-clear and white-on-black tape cartridges.
cheers,
?FritzM.
On Sep 28, 2016, at 2:46 PM, Ethan Dicks
<ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, All,
I'm restoring some stuff from the mid 1970s and a recent acquisition
was previously cleaned of mouse damage but needs to be sanded and
repainted by me. One aspect of it is that some of the labels are
damaged (but some can probably be masked and painted around). The
level of damage I'm talking about looks a bit like this...
http://fritzm.github.io/images/pdp11/h742-corrosion.jpg
Most of the item intact, but rust and scale to be cleaned, sanded,
primed and painted. The damage to the label in that pic is
representative.
I have access to all the modern tools, so it's easy to print black on
clear adhesive sheet, but not so much with white. Before embarking on
spinning up a process, I thought I'd ask if anyone has already done
so. In particular interest to me is the era from about 1965-1980,
from PDP-8s through PDP-11s and VAX-11 machines, both CPUs and
peripherals. I would like to get close matches and I already know in
some cases, there just aren't close matches with modern TrueType font
files. I can, of course, just take photos of the label areas now,
restore the damage, and put on stickers some time in the future, but
doing it all at once has its own appeal
-ethan
