Front panel inserts for Technics reel to reels

[Arnold_Layne]

Saw this on Ebay. They look pretty good in the pictures.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Technics-Reel-To-Reel-Front-Panel-Inserts-BEAUTIFUL_W0QQitemZ150157502855QQihZ005QQcategoryZ15000QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

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[ironbut]

That must the guy that Doc as mentioned before. That burl wood looks pretty nice. When I first looked at it I didn't realize it sits on top of the old panel. I thought that I'd somehow missed that those panels were separate from the rest of the upper. I was thinking, "no way. I could access the tape counter belts from the front !" Nope. BTW, has anybody replaced the belts? Do you have to remove the motor?

[docb]

What, no faux tortoise?! Yes, that is Jeff Jacob's e-bay ID. Actually that is a pretty clever solution to the issue that Jeff Jacobs had with not being able to find someone who could do a clean job of silkscreening the lettering on the machines he was repainting. Dunno about the white edges, black might look better.

[mikel]

i purchased a beautiful Technics RS-1500 from Jeff Joesph yesterday. when i picked it up he showed me those panels....very nice job. he held them up to the RS-1500.....they fit perfectly and match exactly. really dresses it up.

if the RS-1500 i purchased was not already so nice cosmetically (or i wasn't also buying an ATR-102) i might have sprung for them myself.

[Danny Kaey]

just wait to see what Jeff has cooking up ............

ha!