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40-150 push button light
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When I recapped my 40-150 years ago I put a home-made felt strip behind the translucent push-buttons to limit the amount of light from the dial lamp coming around them, like similar strips in the 1941 radios. But (duh!) it also limits the amount of light going through the red translucent buttons.

Now that I have the chassis out for other reasons, I wonder: did Philco use another way to limit the white light leaking around these translucent buttons? Are there other ways restorers have devised to cut down on such light leakage while still allowing light to go through the buttons?

John Honeycutt




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