For that flat panel, to get a nice finish I would get it laser cut. No as expensive as you would think. In UK there are online sellers were you just enter a sketch and they quote and send you a finished panel. Some have pre-anodised stock to cut.
Wow sounds promising, maybe prices have dropped a lot then... since I checked 15 years ago ! If it followed the same trend as PCB manufacturing then it's well possible !
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Mind given me a few UK websites I can check ? That would give me a starting point, see what kind of service and price is available out there.
Then will try to find similar services in France but we usually lag behind the world so I am not holding my breath for French services... either poor and / or overpriced...
Too bad it's become such an expensive pain to order from the UK now ! Germany might be a good compromise. Cheap and easy to import from there, and more up to date with industrial stuff. They probably have services similar to what you have in the UK.
For the printing I'd use the toner transfer paper intended for PCB resist applications. Print on to it with a laser printer (colour printer for red of course). Then just iron it on like a PCB resist. You might want to put clear spray varnish over the top. If you do make sure the first couple of coats are light or the toner will dissolve.
Sounds good too ! That will give me somethinig else to try out !
Thanks everyone for all your suggestion for this panel ! Started like the biggest let down of this 575, and now it's like pretty much already sorted !
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Motivates me to work on all the other issues...
MIght be time to start a dedicated restoration thread on EEVBlog ! Lots has been figured out already, what needs to be done, how to go about it, lots of pics... might be many months until the restoration is done, at best, but at least I could start the thread and then feed it as I go, every now and then. If I wait too long it will be too much info to write at once, will be a pain and I will forget stuff along the way... I prefer to do it blog style as I always do. It's also more lively and interactive this way.
Plus I just told my good friend Marcus in Germany who loves old Tek boat anchors and tube amps, about my newly acquired 575. He said I better restore the thing to its former glory, and to keep him informed of progress... well if I open a thread on here, he can just subscribe to it and get notified when there is something happening....
BTW I just noticed something strange on this panel ! It reads " GERMANIUM " rectifiers inside... but they are not Germanium, they are either Selenium or Silicon !
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