Re: Series 23 Antenna Ideas

Posted by HH56 On 2018/8/16 14:08:54

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I am not sure if the 22nd series radio dials had the "flite glo" UV paint like all the instruments or not. With the purple UV filters over the bulbs it kind of seems as if they did. A neat look at the time to go along with the atomic age when the dash had only the numerals and needles fluorescing bright green at night in the middle of a very dim purple background. Over the years many of the dashes have been converted to regular incandescent light as the fluorescent paint fell off or lost it's ability to glow. Some have bought new luminous paint and redid the numerals but it is a very tedious undertaking.

A bad side effect to that fancy illumination was having the glowing numerals only visible didn't do anything for the switches which were totally dark and unlabeled. A light bar was added to the 22nd series to shine light on the black painted names. They changed to back illuminated labels for the switches on the 23rd series. Maybe the different bulb in the later radio went along with that change.