RCS 10 Channel

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stuart mackay
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RCS 10 Channel

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Thought I would share with you the set that Bluejets facilitated the purchase for me from his friend in Oz!
It arrived a couple of weeks ago with 4 Bonner and 1 Soraco servo and looks like the Tx case is in need of a bit of the "Mackay Fettling" before I think about fitting one of Phil's Reeduino Encoders.

So here is the obligatory "Before" picture and all suggestions welcome on restoration!
RCS 10 ch reed.jpg
As you can see, there is more than a little to do to get it back to its former glory, but it exists and thanks to Bluejets for arranging its sale and subsequent shipment home to "Blighty"
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I recreated the full front decal for this set years ago. It's on Singlechanell.co.uk I believe.

I re-fettled my case using silver Hammerite, fixed on the decal (printed on clear vinyl) the sprayed the whole case in clear polyethylene. Still good many years on. It has one of Phil's prototype hand made pcb's for his mk 1 reed encoder in.

Shaun.
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Thanks Shaun, that just saved a boatload of work! I ll go look for the file!
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In Aus we tend to drop it in molasses for a given time, cleans up like new.
Good to see all arrived ok.
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Shaun sent over his scanned version but Jonathan had already drafted out an Autocad version which you can see here. There were subtle differences between the two Txs so clearly each one was a hand made rendition back then.
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Sanded the case back to bare metal, yesterday, as I didn't want the paint stripper getting in case seams and causing problems later.
Gave the case two coats of silver Hammerite, left to dry overnight and a second very slightly thinned coat applied this morning.
Painted rcs 10 case
Painted rcs 10 case
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Impressive.
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Certainly a 100% better than it’s sorry state it was in
Nice work so far Stuart👍
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RobertC wrote: 25 May 2021, 14:38 Certainly a 100% better than it’s sorry state it was in
Not bad I'd say given it is probably over 70 years old.
Most would be at the bottom of landfill.
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Here's my RCS 10 I mentioned earlier. It was as bad as Stuart's. Silver Hammerite and a few hrs photo shopping a scan of the original front decal produced this.

This set has one of Phil's original prototype pic based reed encoders in. It's years old now and still my favourite Reed set.

Shaun.
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