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03-20-2012, 06:47 AM
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Motorola 7" question
Hi!
Anybody experience with this? Does it fit well?  http://www.ebay.com/itm/Motorola-Tel...item35b74014ef Inputs are welcome.  Many thanks, TV-Collector 
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03-20-2012, 11:41 AM
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I purchased one of these for a VT-71 I have, but I've not yet installed it. It seemed expensive to me, but one of those final touches that makes the set look all the better when you're done with a restoration.
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03-20-2012, 11:59 AM
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I've used three of them and they are identical to the originals. It is a tight fit, but looks good once installed.
 
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03-20-2012, 12:06 PM
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I bought one too, and haven't yet installed it. Based on the quality and texture of the rubber, it's very accurate-looking, and I see no reason why it wouldn't fit. I think it may arrive a little out-of-shape, but the tube nested into the gasket should straighten it out nicely. If it's noticeably out of shape, I'd put it in the sun for a few hours to soften it up before installing it.
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03-20-2012, 09:25 PM
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I bought one too, it fits well but it's a little tricky to install.
I had to lube the face of the tube (water based gel only) to get it to fit, then you have to tighten the neck clamp while you hold it, two people might make it easier. This is probably why some of them had Friction Tape on the neck, to keep it from slipping backwards.
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03-22-2012, 06:37 AM
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Thanks people for the replies!
 TV-Collector
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03-23-2012, 07:18 AM
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"Sorry, item cannot be shipped to Germany"
 It was a try.  Happy week-end, TV-Collector
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03-23-2012, 07:54 AM
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I would try purchasing the mask directly from his web site at : http://www.renovatedradios.com/parts.html The mask is near the bottom of the page. I believe Ed ships world wide. I would contact him first as the Paypal shipping calculator is usually wrong for international, and rates have gone up here significantly. Darryl
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03-23-2012, 08:06 AM
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Thanks Darryl!
One more try!  TV-Collector
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03-23-2012, 11:41 AM
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Tom C. Zenith: The quality stays in EVEN after the name falls off! What I want. --> http://www.videokarma.org/showpost.p...62&postcount=4
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03-23-2012, 12:50 PM
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That's good to know Tom. The initial problem with reproducing these was I couldn't get Ed a good one. The ones in my sets that appeared fine would not come out. No matter how we tried (heat, solvents, etc) they would shatter into pieces when trying to remove them from the front board. We actually started gluing the pieces of one of them back together so he could at least start making the master, but then Chuck came up with this one that was still pliable and hadn't lost it's shape. I couldn't believe that any had survived and were still pliable. That was a life saver and made these repro's possible.
Darryl
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03-23-2012, 07:39 PM
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Let me say again that the masks that Ed S. makes are excellent. He went to a lot of work to make the first one. As I mentioned, I have two of them. They certainly do make the VT-71 complete. Maybe one feels that they are expensive, but they do look good when done...
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03-23-2012, 09:33 PM
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It cost's thousands to get a 15G rebuilt for the CT-100, $43 isn't all that much.
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