[sdiy] Panel refresh

[Mike Bryant]

If you can find a good photograph of the original and photoshop it to the correct size you can get it screen printed onto adhesive vinyl - the same stuff they use to wrap cars - and then remove all the knobs and nuts, drill the vinyl in the centre of all the images of the knobs before sticking it down.  Not quite as good as new but can be pretty good.

In fact some high end low volume mixers already use this technique in production as it's cheaper than printing on the metal, and those companies sell replacement vinyls, but unlikely for old synths.
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Sent: 20 April 2025 17:56
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Subject: Re: [sdiy] Panel refresh

if these outlines were "engraved", I recently used the black variant of this to
fill in some fading digits on a watch bezel, that worked nicely:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004N84BF0?th=1

for fading screen print that won't work though

On 4/19/25 10:06, Terje Winther wrote:
> I have some old panels where the original white outlines of the panel graphics are more and less gone. You can still see the depression of the original graphics, but you need good light to see them, because they are now black against black. The items in questions are one of my Aries modular modules, and an ARP Little brother.
> Are there any simple ways to refill or refresh these panels?
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> Terje Winther
> terje.winther at wintherstormer.no
> http://wintherstormer.no/
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