[Amps] Labeling panels

[Glen Zook]

You can print the labels on a single sheet overhead transparency.  Then use one of the adhesives that come in spray cans.  It does take some "trial and error" using a graphics program to get the placement exactly correct.  But, until everything is "just right", just print these "trials" on plain paper.

There is an example of this on a Gonset Communicator I that I restored a couple of years ago in the series of photographs at

http://k9sth.com/uploads/restored_equipment.pdf

Glen, K9STH

Website:  http://k9sth.com


--- On Wed, 8/18/10, Vic K2VCO <vic at rakefet.com> wrote:

What's a good way to label an unpainted aluminum panel? It has a 'satin finish' thanks to an orbital sander, which really has covered a multitude of sins.
 
I looked into custom engraved adhesive-backed plastic plates. There are a number of companies that will make them, and they would look great. But they are about $4 each, and I'd need about 12 of them, not counting the bandswitches (I admit to having separate grid and plate bandswitches) which would need 6 each!
 
One possibility is printing on 'transparency' stock with my laser printer. But I don't know how I would attach labels made out of this stuff.
 
Another is to print on transparent sticky labels. Has anybody done this?
 
I need a process that would work well on an already-built amplifier...I should have done this before assembly, but I didn't.