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453 BUT maybe just Tek Paint related...

Phillip Potter
 

Hi all,

I now have my recent find running pretty well and I spent the evening, last night, scrubbing (literally!) both top and bottom covers, which were FILTHY. This scope spent many of it's most recent years in a CB shop and from the looks of it, it was out in the diesel truck bay!

Anyway, I hand rubbed the bottom, before I gave up using a piece of bath towel and started using a Scotchbrite scrubbing sponge, which along with some "green" cleaner, was able to cut through the grease and grime. Now, it looks pretty good, but the combination of wear and my scrubbing has taken away the nice shine that the original Tek paint had.

Is there anyone here who, like me, had to clean a REALLY filthy cover and ended up with dull paint and found a way to shine it up? I wonder whether leather wax, car wax, or something like that would work...

Any thoughts? At this point, it looks pretty good and it sure wouldn't hurt for me to experiment, but thought I'd check the "Tek Brain Trust" first...

Thanks,
Phil
John Griessen
 

On 03/11/2018 04:09 PM, Phillip Potter wrote:
Is there anyone here who, like me, had to clean a REALLY filthy cover and ended up with dull paint and found a way to shine it up? I wonder whether leather wax, car wax, or something like that would work...
A convenient polish is kitchen and bath gel gloss -- just right for plastics and paint. Otherwise auto paint polishing compound.
 

I¡¯d give it a go with paint cutting paste. In the U.K. we call it G3. Used for polishing fresh paint after it¡¯s been flatted with wet n dry.

Cheers

Robin

On 11 Mar 2018, at 21:09, Phillip Potter <p.potter@...> wrote:

Hi all,

I now have my recent find running pretty well and I spent the evening, last night, scrubbing (literally!) both top and bottom covers, which were FILTHY. This scope spent many of it's most recent years in a CB shop and from the looks of it, it was out in the diesel truck bay!

Anyway, I hand rubbed the bottom, before I gave up using a piece of bath towel and started using a Scotchbrite scrubbing sponge, which along with some "green" cleaner, was able to cut through the grease and grime. Now, it looks pretty good, but the combination of wear and my scrubbing has taken away the nice shine that the original Tek paint had.

Is there anyone here who, like me, had to clean a REALLY filthy cover and ended up with dull paint and found a way to shine it up? I wonder whether leather wax, car wax, or something like that would work...

Any thoughts? At this point, it looks pretty good and it sure wouldn't hurt for me to experiment, but thought I'd check the "Tek Brain Trust" first...

Thanks,
Phil
 

On 2018-03-11 5:09 PM, Phillip Potter wrote:
Hi all,

I now have my recent find running pretty well and I spent the evening, last night, scrubbing (literally!) both top and bottom covers, which were FILTHY. This scope spent many of it's most recent years in a CB shop and from the looks of it, it was out in the diesel truck bay!

Anyway, I hand rubbed the bottom, before I gave up using a piece of bath towel and started using a Scotchbrite scrubbing sponge, which along with some "green" cleaner, was able to cut through the grease and grime. Now, it looks pretty good, but the combination of wear and my scrubbing has taken away the nice shine that the original Tek paint had.

Is there anyone here who, like me, had to clean a REALLY filthy cover and ended up with dull paint and found a way to shine it up? I wonder whether leather wax, car wax, or something like that would work...

Any thoughts? At this point, it looks pretty good and it sure wouldn't hurt for me to experiment, but thought I'd check the "Tek Brain Trust" first...
Maybe just give in and repaint? A spec of Tek paints was posted in the
Files area recently.

--Toby

Thanks,
Phil
 

I'm going to try out that Bahama Sea Krylon spray paint.
 

As Tek suggests in their document on cleaning (should be in the files section) clean and polish with WD-40
Ive used it on a number of Tek and non Tek cabinets and find it ok when paste furniture wax from hardware stores may not be the ideal choice (just used it on a Heath tube tester textured metal cabinet where paste wax in texture presents polishing difficulties).
Dave

At 03:09 PM 3/11/2018, you wrote:
Hi all,

I now have my recent find running pretty well and I spent the evening, last night, scrubbing (literally!) both top and bottom covers, which were FILTHY. This scope spent many of it's most recent years in a CB shop and from the looks of it, it was out in the diesel truck bay!

Anyway, I hand rubbed the bottom, before I gave up using a piece of bath towel and started using a Scotchbrite scrubbing sponge, which along with some "green" cleaner, was able to cut through the grease and grime. Now, it looks pretty good, but the combination of wear and my scrubbing has taken away the nice shine that the original Tek paint had.

Is there anyone here who, like me, had to clean a REALLY filthy cover and ended up with dull paint and found a way to shine it up? I wonder whether leather wax, car wax, or something like that would work...

Any thoughts? At this point, it looks pretty good and it sure wouldn't hurt for me to experiment, but thought I'd check the "Tek Brain Trust" first...

Thanks,
Phil
 

I have had good luck with black wrinkle and crackle (old General Radio finish) with using boiled linseed oil after cleaning. Rub it into the finish and let it sit for a few minutes, then rub off the excess with cloth. Then let it sit for a couple of days. The finish will have the "wet" look of new paint and keep it. Some will say that the oil collects dust, it does not because it drys to a hard finish in a few hours.
Works best on black but does OK on gray also.

On 3/11/2018 9:04 PM, Daveolla wrote:
As Tek suggests in their document on cleaning (should be in the files section) clean and polish with WD-40
Ive used it on a number of Tek and non Tek cabinets and find it ok when paste furniture wax from hardware stores may not be the ideal choice (just used it on a Heath tube tester textured metal cabinet where paste wax in texture presents polishing difficulties).
Dave
At 03:09 PM 3/11/2018, you wrote:
Hi all,

I now have my recent find running pretty well and I spent the evening, last night, scrubbing (literally!) both top and bottom covers, which were FILTHY. This scope spent many of it's most recent years in a CB shop and from the looks of it, it was out in the diesel truck bay!

Anyway, I hand rubbed the bottom, before I gave up using a piece of bath towel and started using a Scotchbrite scrubbing sponge, which along with some "green" cleaner, was able to cut through the grease and grime.? Now, it looks pretty good, but the combination of wear and my scrubbing has taken away the nice shine that the original Tek paint had.

Is there anyone here who, like me, had to clean a REALLY filthy cover and ended up with dull paint and found a way to shine it up?? I wonder whether? leather wax, car wax, or something like that would work...

Any thoughts?? At this point, it looks pretty good and it sure wouldn't hurt for me to experiment, but thought I'd check the "Tek Brain Trust" first...

Thanks,
Phil

--
Richard Knoppow
dickburk@...
WB6KBL

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