01 May 2007, 01:30
these are the ones I am working on.
So far I am awaiting word from the manufacturer for the crystal fabrication. Until I get the crystals the local printer won't commit to whether or not the name can be done.
In the mean time, my other hobby is extremely early Summit and HP calculator collecting and restoring so in a revelation last night I dug up some old HP parts calculators and cut myself some HP 01 lenses out of the plexiglass. I hand made 2 as an experiment for myself and wow! if I don't say so myself. Notes or explanation about tin foil and etc at the end. You have to look at the pictures first!
Here are the two hand made polished plexi crystals:
Black beater with crystal removed beside the two new crystals:
I now have:
1. 'looks like NOS' black with bronze in box with papers, manual, pen, quick reference cards, registration (the complete ensemble)
2. bronze keyboard restored with the crystal turned up inside out as the scratches would not polish and the HP name was missing in any case:
Close up of damaged crystal:
Close up of bronze bezel prepped for heating:
Close up of bronze bezel done on hairy wrist with the crystal re-glued inside out:
3. Beater black case with stiff keyboard and an unreversable crystal due to major corner chips. I am awaiting the prototype case to arrive with bad module, perfect bezel and keys and bad crystal. I will swap the good module from the black beater into the good prototype. I will also remove the prototype crystal and replace it with a new 'plexi' crystal. The black beater keyboard has extremely stiff keys, rendering this case unusable unless I figure out how to soften the hard rubber retainer inside the case. It does have a perfect module awaiting a new case which is on its way as previously mentioned.
Close up of bad corners on black beater case:
Close up of black beater case with crystal removed and an attempt at rounding the chipped corners. Didn't work to my satisfaction hence the need for the plexi crystal:
Black beater case with the plastic crystal in place:
Hope you enjoyed! Cheers
Notes:
The glue was a 5 min epoxy mixed with a couple of drops of black enamel paint.
Standard hair dryer on the crystal for about 5 minutes.
Cleaned off the residual HP glue with laqueur thinner, carefully so as not to expose the keyboard rubber.
Placed a block of wood cut to fit inside the case to back the rubber keyboard and keys. This prevents the keys from falling out of their sockets and rotating.
The tinfoil prevented the keyboard rubber from heating under the hair dryer.
So far I am awaiting word from the manufacturer for the crystal fabrication. Until I get the crystals the local printer won't commit to whether or not the name can be done.
In the mean time, my other hobby is extremely early Summit and HP calculator collecting and restoring so in a revelation last night I dug up some old HP parts calculators and cut myself some HP 01 lenses out of the plexiglass. I hand made 2 as an experiment for myself and wow! if I don't say so myself. Notes or explanation about tin foil and etc at the end. You have to look at the pictures first!
Here are the two hand made polished plexi crystals:
Black beater with crystal removed beside the two new crystals:
I now have:
1. 'looks like NOS' black with bronze in box with papers, manual, pen, quick reference cards, registration (the complete ensemble)
2. bronze keyboard restored with the crystal turned up inside out as the scratches would not polish and the HP name was missing in any case:
Close up of damaged crystal:
Close up of bronze bezel prepped for heating:
Close up of bronze bezel done on hairy wrist with the crystal re-glued inside out:
3. Beater black case with stiff keyboard and an unreversable crystal due to major corner chips. I am awaiting the prototype case to arrive with bad module, perfect bezel and keys and bad crystal. I will swap the good module from the black beater into the good prototype. I will also remove the prototype crystal and replace it with a new 'plexi' crystal. The black beater keyboard has extremely stiff keys, rendering this case unusable unless I figure out how to soften the hard rubber retainer inside the case. It does have a perfect module awaiting a new case which is on its way as previously mentioned.
Close up of bad corners on black beater case:
Close up of black beater case with crystal removed and an attempt at rounding the chipped corners. Didn't work to my satisfaction hence the need for the plexi crystal:
Black beater case with the plastic crystal in place:
Hope you enjoyed! Cheers
Notes:
The glue was a 5 min epoxy mixed with a couple of drops of black enamel paint.
Standard hair dryer on the crystal for about 5 minutes.
Cleaned off the residual HP glue with laqueur thinner, carefully so as not to expose the keyboard rubber.
Placed a block of wood cut to fit inside the case to back the rubber keyboard and keys. This prevents the keys from falling out of their sockets and rotating.
The tinfoil prevented the keyboard rubber from heating under the hair dryer.
