Cream DAC90A cabinet colour

[pentoad]

I read somewhere maybe on this forum, that Bush started to spray paint the cabinets ivory at some point because they where having problems with heat from the dropper resistor discolouring or even cracking the cabinet - is that a myth?
I haven't been able to unearth any evidence of this.

[Paul_RK]

Here's the evidence, a set I bought twenty-odd years ago with about half its cream paint flaked off. The rest came off very easily with a spatula revealing a colour unlike as far as I know any DAC90A that was ever marketed. Whether they made any quantity of these I couldn't say: the serial number is high, 73/227666, but I think I've seen at least one set in a moulded cream cabinet with a later number. Cracking from heat stress is, I'd say, more often seen than not in cream 90As these days, so I quite expect it would have become apparent in a good few of them after six or seven years' use: and the model seems to have had longer than that in production - I've seen a reproduced sales leaflet which included both the DAC90A and the TR82.

Paul

[bobhowe]

Hi David dont know if its true or a Myth but there was some painted red & green ? .The mark inside your ivory cabinet is glue that secures the Royalty Plate discussed in another thread