Next I decided to rebuild the match unit. Notice in the 1st pic how crappy and worn the some of the reel numbers were. Only the ‘300, 400 and 800’ were badly affected luckily. I decided to make adhesive decals for the damaged numbers as it was the easiest fix I could think of. Now.. I just had to scan this circular object on my flatbed scanner!!! I remembered reading, I think it was one of Daniels threads?? Hope I got that right?? Where he just rolled the reel down the scanner glass as it was scanning. So I thought id try the same thing. It took me several goes before I got it right, and I only scanned the damaged numbers anyway so it wasn’t too bad to do. Anyhow after I had some good scans of the numbers I needed to replace, and had fixed them up in photostudio, I printed them out onto clear adhesive A4 inkjet label material.
In the 2nd pic you can see my decals ready to be applied, the ‘400’is already stuck on in this pic. First though I cleaned the old numbering of with Prepsol and cloth, leaving just enough of the old number on there to help with aligning the decals.
Last two pics show the rebuilt match unit ready for the reel to be fitted.
