24 Jul
2005
24 Jul
'05
12:53 p.m.
I just pulled a somewhat parted Typeset-8 out of a very dirty Memphis
basement, and just like the PDP-8/e I had before this, the panel paint is
just starting to peel above the rightmost switches.
This bugs the hell out of me. I hate peeling paint.
I am toying with the idea of mixing up some paint to patch the flaws (the
rest of the panel is really great). Is there any interest in 8/e orange
(both shades) touchup paint, or am I the only one that manages to get
8/e's with peels?
The Typeset came with a DF32/DS32 pair and a Teleype BRPE paper tape punch
(PP67?), but the paper tape panels and electronics were removed years ago.
William Donzelli
aw288 at osfn.org
24 Jul
24 Jul
6:31 p.m.
FWIW department. A friend of mine got some custom paint for some of the
old Colins radios mixed up and delivered in spray cans. I don't know where
he got it from but I can probably find out.
Joe
At 12:53 PM 7/24/05 -0400, you wrote:
I just pulled a somewhat parted Typeset-8 out of a very
dirty Memphis
basement, and just like the PDP-8/e I had before this, the panel paint is
just starting to peel above the rightmost switches.
This bugs the hell out of me. I hate peeling paint.
I am toying with the idea of mixing up some paint to patch the flaws (the
rest of the panel is really great). Is there any interest in 8/e orange
(both shades) touchup paint, or am I the only one that manages to get
8/e's with peels?
The Typeset came with a DF32/DS32 pair and a Teleype BRPE paper tape punch
(PP67?), but the paper tape panels and electronics were removed years ago.
William Donzelli
aw288 at osfn.org
7:51 p.m.
A friend of mine got some custom paint for some of the
old Collins
radios mixed up and delivered in spray cans.
Good auto-body paint shops can do this for you. Not cheap (I think
$25 for the first can, probably cheaper if you buy multiple cans, and
this was fifteen years ago so it's probably more now.)
Tim.
9:09 p.m.
A friend of
mine got some custom paint for some of the old Collins
radios mixed up and delivered in spray cans.
Good auto-body paint shops can do this for you. Not cheap (I think
$25 for the first can, probably cheaper if you buy multiple cans, and
this was fifteen years ago so it's probably more now.) 
9:55 p.m.
On 7/25/05, William Donzelli <aw288 at osfn.org> wrote:
I am just wondering if others have had bad paint
experiences with their
DEC equipment, and if anyone would need touchup paint.
Yeah. My 8/e is suffering from peeling black paint just around the start key...
My other 8/m has not peeling paint but the backing layer was mottling,
the net effect was that seen through light, the panel was a
planetarium, with a lot of holes whereby light would shine right
through..
What I did with the 8/m was that I masked out the holes where the
LED/bulb were and I sprayed the BACK of the panel with matt black
paint. Looks great now! :-)
9:10 p.m.
FWIW department. A friend of mine got some custom
paint for some of the
old Colins radios mixed up and delivered in spray cans. I don't know where
he got it from but I can probably find out.
Thanks for the info. I think I have heard of this in some of the BA mags.
William Donzelli
aw288 at osfn.org
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