Re: [Drakelist] MN2700 pushbuttons....
If you really must have an exact duplicate, if you have one good one, you can use urethane casting resin. First, using the good part, you make a mold set from silicone molding material, then cast the resin into the mold. I have made duplicate keyboard caps for specialty industrial automation keyboards for CNC machines this way and you can't tell the difference. It would cost in the area of 50-75 bucks for a kit with all materials required. Expensive but a perfect match. Curt KU8L Don Cunningham wrote: Fred, I should stress, use a LITTLE expxy on those lids or they are permanent, hi. Someone years ago went the trouble of somehow filling those hollow pen caps with a resin of some sorts and inserted shafts in the uncured resin and had a nice fit when they cured up. 73, Don, WB5HAK ___ Drakelist mailing list Drakelist@zerobeat.net http://mailman.zerobeat.net/mailman/listinfo/drakelist ___ Drakelist mailing list Drakelist@zerobeat.net http://mailman.zerobeat.net/mailman/listinfo/drakelist
Re: [Drakelist] MN2700 pushbuttons....
Are these not the same push buttons used on the rest of the 7 line? They should be plentiful. Who was looking for them? 73 Lee WB6SSW -Original Message- From: Curt Nixon cptc...@flash.net To: Don Cunningham d...@martineer.net Cc: drakelist drakelist@zerobeat.net Sent: Fri, Aug 19, 2011 10:57 pm Subject: Re: [Drakelist] MN2700 pushbuttons If you really must have an exact duplicate, if you have one good one, ou can use urethane casting resin. First, using the good part, you ake a mold set from silicone molding material, then cast the resin into he mold. I have made duplicate keyboard caps for specialty industrial utomation keyboards for CNC machines this way and you can't tell the ifference. It would cost in the area of 50-75 bucks for a kit with all aterials required. Expensive but a perfect match. Curt U8L Don Cunningham wrote: Fred, I should stress, use a LITTLE expxy on those lids or they are permanent, hi. Someone years ago went the trouble of somehow filling those hollow pen caps with a resin of some sorts and inserted shafts in the uncured resin and had a nice fit when they cured up. 73, Don, WB5HAK ___ Drakelist mailing list Drakelist@zerobeat.net http://mailman.zerobeat.net/mailman/listinfo/drakelist __ rakelist mailing list rakel...@zerobeat.net ttp://mailman.zerobeat.net/mailman/listinfo/drakelist ___ Drakelist mailing list Drakelist@zerobeat.net http://mailman.zerobeat.net/mailman/listinfo/drakelist
[Drakelist] MN2700 pushbuttons....
I have a Drake MN2700 antenna tuner and one of the pushbuttons is broken and missing. The switch still works OK but it doesn't look right!!! I appreciate any assistance, thanks ahead. Fred (Ski)-WB8YXI ___ Drakelist mailing list Drakelist@zerobeat.net http://mailman.zerobeat.net/mailman/listinfo/drakelist
Re: [Drakelist] MN2700 pushbuttons....
Fred, Some of the cheap Bic pens have a top that the upper 1/2 or 3/4 of which is a reasonable facsimile of the switch levers which seem to be unobtainium, as far as I could find, even several years ago!! The ones I find are black ink, and are really close if you can saw that upper piece off and epoxy it to the lever. Maybe someone else will have another suggestion, but that will work. 73, Don, WB5HAK ___ Drakelist mailing list Drakelist@zerobeat.net http://mailman.zerobeat.net/mailman/listinfo/drakelist
Re: [Drakelist] MN2700 pushbuttons....
Fred, I should stress, use a LITTLE expxy on those lids or they are permanent, hi. Someone years ago went the trouble of somehow filling those hollow pen caps with a resin of some sorts and inserted shafts in the uncured resin and had a nice fit when they cured up. 73, Don, WB5HAK ___ Drakelist mailing list Drakelist@zerobeat.net http://mailman.zerobeat.net/mailman/listinfo/drakelist
