Evening all
I need a bit of paint advice...
The Philips 170A/15 radio receiver (1946) uses a piece of glass between the
scale illumination lamps and the glass tuning scale itself.
This is described in the manual as the "diffusion glass."
In every one I've seen, the white paint with which this piece of clear glass is
sprayed is flaking off.
You only have to breathe on it to get a shower of paint dandruff everywhere (!)
The glass itself is nothing special, smooth and shiny like window glass with
no "key" for the paint whatsoever.
It appears it was sprayed on both faces and all edges.
The paint (what's left of it) has a matte appearance and must, of course,
permit the light from the scale lamps to penetrate sufficiently to provide
an illuminated white background to the tuning scale.
Any thoughts and / or suggestions?