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    Suggestions on restoring painted data plates

    Thanks for the link! The plates that they're talking about are aluminium and mine are brass so I can't clean them the same way. But there's some good tips there about how to paint the ones with the raised edges. BUT their painting technique requires that the plate but perfectly flat and some of...
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    Suggestions on restoring painted data plates

    I just found a 1951 Model 3ABG military generator and it appears sto have a lot of data plates but a lot of them look like this: I'm trying to handle them CAREFULLY to prevent the paint from falling off and I'm going to photograph them to preserve the data but after that's done, is there...
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