Almost everything was black (mostly wrinkle) at one time. The A-line Collins radios, while technically not black, were black enough.
One of the problems with “decorator colors” is matching paint from batch to batch. Heathkit SB-line radios were “Heath green”, but they were not terribly careful about matching. So if you got two cabinets painted in different lots, odds are the greens weren’t quite the same. I think WRL “gray” was also a variety of shades, some tending towards greenish. It wouldn’t necessarily be obvious in a standalone situation, but when you lined up the cabinets the color differences could really stick out. I remember that my 1970’s SB-640 external VFO was way off from the SB-102 I’d built a couple of years earlier — both front panel color and cabinet color. You can always pay the price for a Hilberling, since the PT-8000A is available in quite a few different colors, and the Sienna from DZKit, too :-) Grant NQ5T K3 #2091 KX3 #8342 > On Aug 31, 2018, at 12:38 PM, hawley, charles j jr <c-haw...@illinois.edu> > wrote: > > Black is easier to touch up if necessary. And it looks uniform with other > brands of items which are also black. > > Chuck KE9UW > c-haw...@illinois.edu > > Sent from my iPad > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
