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Echorec Plexiglas Front Panel Polishing

We recently began restoration of a beat-up old ‘B1’ Echorec. It was in a right sorry state. Some Rolling Stone fan had taken it into their head to paint the machine black at some point (probably in the 1980s when black was ‘in’) and the original knobs had been replaced by cheesy spun aluminium ones, circa 1970s. Additionally the ‘Pleixglas’ front panel was heavily scoured and scratched. There were several nasty looking deep gouges near the ‘magic eye’ indicator and I was dubious as to whether it would be possible to polish them out, however, much to my delight I was wrong, as I hope the picture of the restored front panel above shows. Here’s how this little miracle was performed.

I set to work on a Saturday afternoon using ‘Quixx’ scratch remover for acrylic glass. This product is essentially a super-fine abrasive cream. It’s also supplied with a cloth and very fine grade sandpaper. The first stage involved wetting the sandpaper with a little water and washing-up liquid (this acts as a lubricant). After about an hour or so of light sanding and wiping away excess water I was delighted to see that even the deepest scratches had completely vanished. The panel was wiped over one last time and I was ready to begin stage two: the final polishing. For this the abrasive cream was applied in bead-size amounts and the cloth used to polish just a couple of square inches of the front panel at a time. Within 20 minutes I’d worked my way across the entire panel to obtain a supremely classy black mirror-like finish.

And that’s all there is to restoring a Binson Echorec front panel back to tip-top condition. It really is a simple job, and satisfying too. Incidentally you may be interested to know that that heinous black paint came off pretty easily too. Several hours of work with a small paint brush soaked in methylated spirits revealed the beautiful original hammered gold paint beneath the black. But wait, what’s this? The lid, bulb covers and back panel had been painted in hammered silver paint—exactly the same silver as the ‘Baby’ Binson—not the typical gold hammered finish Binson used on their full size machines. Oh boy, yet another Echorec mystery to contemplate…

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