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Glass fitting. This is the part I have been looking forward to for a while. Fitted the glass in to the freshly painted frames. Glass I’d 4mm instead of 6mm on the original. Added some foam insulation strip on the back of the brackets to clamp the glass tightly. Fitted the buttons and their new decals, reassembled. Fitted the fluorescent tubes to the new mounting brackets. Moved the reel deck by 5mm to the right to align with the glass. Laid out the wiring loom and with the aid of pictures of previous rebuilds for reference fitted the bulb holders with a best educated guess. The bottom glass looks very good indeed, need to think about the bottom fluorescent tube lighting the bottom feature through the white lamp mask, may be as simple as a cover for the tube. Top glass has the black mask slightly out by 2mm but is an easy fix. Overall very pleased 😄

Glass and reel bands arrived today ! First job was to fit the new reel bands, I aligned them with the markings in the reels from the original line up bands. They are printed on gloss plastic and look really good. Next was to fit the lamp mask and stick it to the new glass.

Pictures of the printed glass, being shipped tomorrow. Looking forward to see them in the flesh!