Brown face meter.

[gator7]

One of the local operators who has started a collection of Brownings just picked up a R27 S23 with a meter like a MK III, but with a brown face plate. The receiver has had this mod done. But only the receiver.
We were wondering if anyone else has seen a meter like this installed in one of these receivers?
Also it has a metal Golden Eagle plate under the meter to cover the old oblong meter hole.
And another question. We were taking about changing out the solider in crystal selector with a plug in type. Has anyone ever seen this done? Or I should ask, can it be done?
As I understand it. The VFO/conversion kits for the R 27 S 23 are hard to come by. That was one reason we had discussed the selector change out.
I will try to post a photo of this pair.

73's

[mark4]

There was one on ebay with a black dial.
And a eagle glued to the speaker grill.
But not with a brown face plate.
Sounds like someone painted it.

[Tombstone (R.I.P.)]

I have a Glen slider on my S23 and installed the amplifier kit to the oscillator for enough drive. The crystals are totally disconnected. The receiver has crystals to go up and down 23 but the receive sensitivity drops off after about ten "channels" up and down because of not being wide banded enough. The transmitter holds power a lot farther up and down and has had the 100,000 mile tune up but the receiver still has all of the original parts in it, I need to do the tune up on it because I had to take the radio off line. After warm up I can hear capacitor noise bad that sounds like lightening crashes. That meter swap in the R27 sounds like a butcher job but the original meters aren't available unless you get lucky and find a parts radio. My S-meter failed so I took the meter out of a parts transmitter and put it in the receiver upside down. It shows receive but the numbers mean nothing. I'm afraid to try and put the S unit scale plate in that meter from the bad one because if I mess it up all I'll have is a hole in the front panel.

Tombstone