Wireless Set No. 52 Canadian - Project

[David Dunlop]

It has been a very good weekend for getting things done on the Main Set Receiver. One huge three part bit of work and a couple of detail items accomplished.

The first small item was getting the blue paint daub reapplied to the top of the Crystal Calibrator Chassis to denote all valves therein had be properly aged in prior to installation of the calibrator. One small piece of the original paint had survived. It is nothing fancy, just a random daub (more correctly a grouping of daubs of blue paint) just smaller than a 5-Cent Piece.

I could not find a 1944 Nickel in my coin bin for the photo, so a 1945 had to step in.

Before I forget, again, the paint I found that was a close match to the original is ‘TREMCLAD GLOSS MEDIUM BLUE’. I sprayed some in an empty cat food tin and daubed it on with a cotton q-tip. It is an enamel and with take several hours to dry to the touch and about 24 hours to cure under normal household temperatures.

David