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neevo
·I’m about to buy a 1580 date disc for my Cal.565 but getting a decent one in the right colour is proving to be a challenge. I have one in my sights but the numbers are not 100% perfect.
I’d also like to try the option of a white letters on black background but those are definitely NLA.
I’ve bee through this with a 1962 McIntosh Tube Preamp I restored as the front panels for those are also NLA and I managed to recreate them and even 24k gold leaf the lettering.
So this is a much easier task once I’ve done the artwork and tooling to make sure the print can be done perfectly. The issue is finding suitable discs to do the work on. I’m a bit loathed to potentially ruin a $200 date disc to test and the only ones I can find on eBay that are decently poor condition are the curved 1500 varieties.
Worst case I’ll have to buy another $200 disc and try it on that, but was hoping someone might know of a source of discs so bad that they thought no one would ever want them that I could buy with the hope of developing a restoration process.
I’d also like to try the option of a white letters on black background but those are definitely NLA.
I’ve bee through this with a 1962 McIntosh Tube Preamp I restored as the front panels for those are also NLA and I managed to recreate them and even 24k gold leaf the lettering.
So this is a much easier task once I’ve done the artwork and tooling to make sure the print can be done perfectly. The issue is finding suitable discs to do the work on. I’m a bit loathed to potentially ruin a $200 date disc to test and the only ones I can find on eBay that are decently poor condition are the curved 1500 varieties.
Worst case I’ll have to buy another $200 disc and try it on that, but was hoping someone might know of a source of discs so bad that they thought no one would ever want them that I could buy with the hope of developing a restoration process.
