Am I the only one who fixes Mcintosh black glass?

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I can fix delaminated Mcintosh Black Galss 100% perfect every time. Simply pull the face plate apart as if you were replacing the glass. Lay it face side down on a soft cloth and using an exacto knife easily chip away the paint from the glass that has delaminated. Turn the glass over and look at the front to view to make sure that all delaminated paint has been removed. If more paint keeps delaminating keep cutting it away with the exacto knife untill you get to a clean edge where there is no delamination at the edege. Continue to do this on all areas of the glass. DO NOT BE AFRAID NO MATER HOW MUCH PAINT YOU REMOVE. When the delaminated paint is removed you will have clear glass. It will look compleatly ruined. Buy some "testers" black gloss model paint and a model brush. With the glass face down dab drops of black paint on the back of the glass so it puddles on the glsss in all the areas where you removed the delaminated paint making sure it covers onto the old paint. Do not brush it, it must puddle, there will be no stroke marks because it is a peddle. Make sure it is thick so no light can come through. It will always look smooth on the glass side even if it looks like crap on your side. Let it dry. If you removed all the delaminated paint to a sharp line the glass will look like new with no evidence of repair. I have done this 4 or 5 times with perfect results every time. On one MR 74 tuner face plate I actually removed 30% or the orgional paint to repair about 1% of the surface area because the old paint was so dry more and more kept comming off as I worked to remove delaminated areas to get to a clean hard edge, I thought it was trashed for sure, I even had to use professional painting tape because it went into the dial face area and I had to cut a new dial line on the bottom. It took about two hours or so and the result was unreal it was soo good. Color match is 100% perfecto. Try it it's fun.

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Topic - Am I the only one who fixes Mcintosh black glass? - rrikola@hotmail.com 19:17:55 11/20/04 (2)

Re: Am I the only one who fixes Mcintosh black glass? - koo 16:59:24 11/21/04 (0)

Re: Am I the only one who fixes Mcintosh black glass? - djk 00:18:17 11/21/04 (0)

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