It takes a lot of work to correctly restore an old military receiver or transmitter, especially correctly restoring the front panel. Perhaps the most frustrating can be the Signal Corps acceptance stamps and how to recreate them so they look authentic. Well now there's a way. There's a fellow over on the G503 forum who makes repro SC acceptance stamps. His asking price is very reasonable and I bought 4 different stamps (he has more).

The trick was finding a reasonably close ink. After trying 2 or 3 different ones I settled on "Super Pigmented Acrylic Ink" from Speedball Art. It can be found at most art and craft stores. The Scarlet Red is the closest to the SC color. A little ink on a common kitchen sponge and a little practice later produced this result. I tried to make it look original so I stayed away from being to perfect.

Here's a link to his post.
http://www.g503.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=199413



Larry

That looks really good, Larry. How about showing us the rest of that set?

Joe Connor

It was heavily "ham"ified after the war and rather than try to undo all the mods I decided to restore it as an example of a post war surplus ham receiver. It has every mod listed in the available mod manual and a couple, including a 4 prong socket for an external 12 volt power supply, that aren't listed anywhere and I'm not touching.

Before:

After:

Larry

Working in the aviation Mil. Spec. and aerospace industry, I see these inspector's approval stamps all the time on products being manufactured on the line. It's a curious little footnote that there was a real person inspecting a particular item at the point of manufacture. I often wondered, "Who was this guy?".

Perfect Timing,

Just brought my BC-342n home today. Still need to take it out of the trunk, it is a heavy little radio. I have some serious work to do on this rig.

Thanks for the link.

OOOH! This baby needs more than an acceptance stamp! Seriously tho, this is good info. I think the neo acceptance stamps might be a way to cover patched holes in the front panel, since the military stampers didn't seem to be
too strict about where they stamped. ( See the BC-312 manual, where the lines for the MWOs aren't even level. )
-Hue Miller