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Post by Blaine on May 16, 2020 10:35:15 GMT -7
A nice bright Saturday morning ! Who wouldn't want to be outside sanding and priming and painting !  OK, maybe not you, but I've been waiting for the chance to get this done for a while. So after a few hours of sanding, wet sanding, priming and wet sanding again, a first coat is on a couple of ongoing projects.    I'll give that a little time to dry and get a couple more coats on and hopefully they'll be looking good. |
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Post by Blaine on May 18, 2020 21:11:49 GMT -7
After a day of painting and little re assembly, one more radio is almost ready to show off.   I need to order a RCA Victor logo decal and find a 1 inch diameter circle sticker for the dial knob, but I'll get those ordered up soon. Looks like the speaker turned out pretty good as well, I have to give it a closer look to be sure. It appears to have been a successful day, got a few jobs done that I have been wanting to get done.  |
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Post by Blaine on May 18, 2020 21:17:42 GMT -7
In case anyone is wondering, that radio is a 1954, RCA Victor X-510 AM radio, built in Toronto. Here is a picture of it before I started the restore.  It was in pretty good shape, but the paint was badly damaged. Originally I had planned to paint it a dark brown, but I didn't find a paint that looked right ( to me ) so I went with the red. Looks good to me ! |
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Post by kahuna on May 19, 2020 21:31:18 GMT -7
What a change! Great job!
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