I’m now taking orders for custom made reproduction SCELBI 8H front panels.
Price is $65 plus $10 shipping continental USA or $20 international. I am pricing these more as service to SCELBI PCB kit builders than for profit. When I eventually sell most of the 20 that I have made, there may be a small profit in it for me, but it will not be much. Based on my experience, unless you were already set up for making custom front panels, making a single one for yourself would cost at least two to three hundred dollars.
A couple of things to be aware of.
In my opinion, they look very good, but on close inspection you can tell that they are not perfect examples of what many people expect from modern machine made goods.
I will try to ship the best looking examples to first buyers, but even the ones with the most defects look very good.
The screen printed legends are rather fragile and can easily be damaged or rubbed off. I recommend you overcoat with some kind of clear satin spray. I have put 3 light coats of Minwax satin spray lacquer on my personal unit and it looks better than without the overcoat. I would do this myself for all units sold, but this sort of process takes a lot of time and care to get it right and it would make any tweaking or customization by the end user more difficult.
Send an email to:mike@willegal.net if you need more details on ordering.
