[Tigers] bulb dye

[Smit, Theo]

Hi Jim,
Model airplane guys use fabric dye to color plastic canopies... that may work
for the lens. One package of dye is probably enough to do the entire Tiger
production run of generator lights, but it's pretty inexpensive.

Functionally, a red LED behind the warning light lens looks great.
Cheers,
Theo

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tigers-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:tigers-
> bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Rollright at aol.com
> Sent: July 19, 2012 3:59 PM
> To: tigers at autox.team.net
> Subject: [Tigers] bulb dye
>
> Hello,
>
> Most of my career I've worked for consumer electronics companies. Back
> in
> the 1970's, working for a company in Cambridge. MA called Advent, we
> used a
> substance labeled "Bulb Dye". It canpackaged in small bottles inside a
> transparent blister mounted to a cardboard backng. We used it as a
> sealer for
> tweeters; an outside coat on the working diaphragm. Red for Large
> Advents
> and  Green for early Smaller Advents. (some really useless trivia)
>
> Someone just wrote in about vinyl dye and it jarred my memory. I've
> been
> wanting to ask anyone if they've seen this stuff on sale anywhere.
>
> Reason?  The red generator light gets faded and this would be just the
> ticket to restore it. Yes, I know you can turn them around and I've got
> a good
> one now, but I'd like to play around and see if this works on the ones
> that
> are  too far gone other-wise.
>
> Jim  Armstrong
> Mk 1A
> 382002083
> LRXFE
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