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Old 3rd Feb 2019, 8:34 pm   #5
David G4EBT
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Default Re: To paint or not to paint ?

Like you Tim, I've been a keen home-brewer since the mid 1950s, and I've never tried to emulate commercially made equipment, because we don't have the resources to do that, and we'll always fall short. The benchmark I've always used is to try to attain the highest homebrew standards within the limit of my skills and resources, and to never make anything that I'd be embarrassed to take the cover off.

Using that benchmark, what you've designed and built is superb - the 'real deal'. Perverse as it may sound, I think if you were to powder coat it, would actually detract rather than enhance the appearance. It would look more 'Panda Cub' and less 'G4WIM', if that makes any sense.

Wonderful to know that while home-brew amateur radio is in inexorable decline, it's not yet extinct!
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