Wireless Set No. 52 Canadian - Project

[David Dunlop]

A nice sunny morning today so a little bit more of the panel has now been cleaned. Progress slows quite a bit when you get in between fittings and decals, and add that to the sections that are so heavily coated with varnish.

Took a bit of work but the erroneous decal under the door cutout did polish out. The white paint came off the top quickly and then a yellow rectangle remained where the backing of the decal had covered the original wartime varnish. Once I broke through the decal backing, the original varnish polished back very easily.

David

[David Dunlop]

A little bit more done down the right hand side today.

I think I am getting close to the halfway point for this polishing now.

David

[David Dunlop]

Now finally at the point of just over half the front panel having been polished clean of discoloured varnish. The second incorrect decal warning of radioactive luminous paint is gone, and of 30 decals on the front panel of the 52-Set Sender, 10 are now standing free and clear of discoloured varnish.

Slowly we make progress!

David

[David Dunlop]

Much too cloudy and overcast today, so I only got about another inch lower in the cleaning process on the right hand side of the Sender panel, before my eyes went into full Autorotation Mode.

David

[David Dunlop]

I picked up this brute today, the 2nd CPP-2 Power Supply I will need to fully check out the 52-Set.

Many thanks to Brian Asbury, who still has these supplies in stock, and to the MLU Shipping Team of Rob Love and Derk Derin, for getting it to Winnipeg and warehousing it, until I could pick it up.


David

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

Originally Posted by David Dunlop

I picked up this brute today, the 2nd CPP-2 Power Supply I will need to fully check out the 52-Set.

Many thanks to Brian Asbury, who still has these supplies in stock, and to the MLU Shipping Team of Rob Love and Derk Derin, for getting it to Winnipeg and warehousing it, until I could pick it up.


David

A later one with the 12/24V access door....nice. Now just find a source for the mains fuse.

[David Dunlop]

I was able to even out the cleaning a bit today, and with this little bit done with, a quick calculation gives me about 59.65 % of the panel cleaning for the Sender has now been completed.

That finally includes the five riveted STOPS for the three dials, which are a real pain to clean around effectively, and it also gets the upper riveted mounting post for the clear acrylic POINTER located on the right side of the FREQUENCY dial. Just the lower riveted mounting post to deal with now and after that, nice flat panel to work on.

This point in the cleaning also leaves 14 of the 30 decals now cleaned around, so nearly half way through that part of the task as well.

I am going to have to get another tube of polish this weekend. The thick coat of varnish on this Sender panel is really eating through the tube I purchased at the start of this project. By comparison, when I cleaned about 10 19-Set panels back in the 1980's, I still had nearly a third of a tube left.

David