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GE FE-112 Dial Pointer
#1

I'm all but done with the restoration on my GE FE-112, but I'm missing the dial string indicator for the Off/On/Tone section of my dial face.

Any ideas where I can find something that will work? This is the volume indicator...I'd need another one just like it.

PS-Image is sideways.

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#2

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Huge-Lot-Assorte...SwqF9ZvwpM

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-Radio-Pa...Sw3eJZz7Cr

People who do not drink, do not smoke, do not eat red meat will one day feel really stupid lying there and dying from nothing.
#3

Yeah. I saw those too. I was hoping to not blow $50 on a hodge podge of parts only to find none of them worked....
#4

Well, this one looks like something that one could easily fashion out of a piece of a tin can cut with scissors, bent appropriately and painted red.

People who do not drink, do not smoke, do not eat red meat will one day feel really stupid lying there and dying from nothing.
#5

To get an exact match you might need to buy a parts chassis or get real lucky on eBay.

You might be able to find and modify a pointer from a different set to look pretty close.... when it's all closed up you probably only see the tip of the pointer anyway.  This is where a Dremel tool, small files, tin snips, etc. come in handy.

I bought some aluminum roof flashing from Lowes or Home Depot a few years ago and it looks like it would be pretty easy to cut and bend.  I can cut off an index card size piece and mail it to you in an envelope if you send me your address.

John KK4ZLF
Lexington, KY
"illegitimis non carborundum"
#6

I made a pointer out of sheet metal from the cover of a wrecked Sony home theater map, and I mean wrecked. I sort of cheated though, I didn't make the pair that slide along the track and slips over the dial cord, I got that part from a broken dial pointer off of something else, and then soldered the strip of sheet metal from the Sony cover to it. I pretty much had to make it, it was a dial pointer for a Guild Spice Chest radio, it was a metal strip bent into a loop that was supposed to poke out through a slot in the middle of the dial, the G.E one will be easier since you already have an original as a model.
Regards
Arran
#7

Thanks for the offer, but I just "reboxed" it and will enjoy eventually hunting down a replacement. My daughter set her sights on this one so it should be in the family for a while.

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#8

That's one spiffy looking set!

People who do not drink, do not smoke, do not eat red meat will one day feel really stupid lying there and dying from nothing.
#9

A big ole 11 tuber. One of the most selective sets I've done. Best SW reception of any set I've worked on.




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