[jcassity]

a bit off but on topic.
i noticed something very very cutting edge in this radio that to me stems off a topic i am experienced with.

i keep calling this a "dial glass but its actually a louvered clear plastic.

the original application required one bulb so keep that in mind.

the engineering team solved a complicated problem with the least cost.

so,,, inside this set the plastic louver dial glass converges to a large hunk of plastic stump so to speak and at the end of this stump,,, i examined the surface which it has been actually polished. this "stump" points right at the single bulb that it came with originally.

what they were doing was using a form of tech in fiber optics.,, using light to hit the clear plastic and the assumption was the light would travel through the dial glass.
it does work somewhat but its uneven. secondly , a single bulb on the right did not light up the left translucent ring.

just thought i would post this fascinating use of early fiber optics.