u/Kashio73

After restoring the module display, I fixed up the dial alignment and threw on a fresh mineral glass crystal. Can't get enough of the metallic dial style.

I was stoked to score a couple of Crystrons with working modules, but the degradation of the screens made legibility quite difficult in even slightly dark conditions. Managed to get them good as new through a combo of replacement parts, front polarizer, rear polarizer and rear reflector upgrades. I've done front polarizer overlay updates before, but this was the most involved project yet; pretty proud of myself.

Biggest takeaway tip: The glass screen will typically be sandwiched between TWO polarizer screens (this was news to me) that are positioned at 90 degrees to one another. Having just the front polarizer left the digits faded with only darker outlines; combining with the rear polarizer got them fully nice and dark.

Next step will be to replace/clean up the crystals.