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This gallery shows Stephen's Bendix/King Transponder replica, specifically the KT76C.
 
 
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The front panel plate is made from several millimeters strong polycarbonate.
The case is made from high-density cardboard.
 
 
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The keys are either polystyrol or polycarbonate, can't remember. Filed down to size and painted white.
The white does let some light through, so it can be backlit.
 
 
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The pushbuttons are cheap microswitches glued to the front panel using a hot glue gun.
 
 
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The rotary selector switch is a really cheap kind, just a few cents, modified for more positions.
Again, hot glue to keep it in place.
 
 
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The case with sticker :-)
 
 
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The back of the front place.
 
 
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again the back of the front plate.
 
 
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closeup of the front panel plate.
 
 
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The panel painted black and with legends.
 
 
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he also painted the edges to prevent (back-)light from escaping.
 
 
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Note that he used 'tigert' Tuomas' idea with tinted car window foil. Now you can't see the seven segment displays behind it if the display segents are not lit.
 
 
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and the back again, clearly showing the tinted display window.
 
 
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Doesn't look to bad for the amount of money that were put into making this.
 
 
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To get a knob that looks similar to the real thing, Stephen had his first go at knob molding.
The materials used were not the standard stuff. Rather he used what he had at home.
The mold was made from something used to fill holes in walls (if I remember correctly).
Into that he poured hot glue, but made sure the the hot glue gun had heated up very well so the glue was as liquid as possible in order to fill in all the small structures. The original knob used to make the mold was similar, but didn't have the widened bottom part.
 
 
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another picture of the 'made from hotglue' knob
 
 
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The tinted cat window foil really works wonders :)
 
 
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It almost looks like a fake... but you might be able to see the holes of the perfboard that the seven segment displays are mounted on.
 
 
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And here are the bare displays. These are actually the displays of my B744 MCP (vert spd).
 
 
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The XPDR unit with the knob mounted
 
 
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all thats missing is the wiring and mounting of the displays.
 
 
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