Green Thunder By WA4DDH
I recently purchased a vintage, single lever Vibroplex key refurbished by Bill, WA4DDH. The key looks great and works very well. With serial number #264554 this key was manufactured in 1970 according to WW7P's Vibroplex serial number collectors list.
I like this key a lot and have been using it extensively over the past few weeks. I did replace the old rubber feet which had hardened and moved around the desk to much for me.
Bill rescues these old keys which would otherwise be thrown away as junk and restores them to their previous glory. The color scheme represents his personal flare to enhance the keys, and ‘naming’ a particular group of keys for the year that they were refurbished. Green Thunder is the color scheme for the keys he's refurbished in 2022.
History of keys & paint theme.
This year marks 12 years of refurbished/restored Keys:
2022 GREEN THUNDER (Olive Green),
2021 GRAY GHOST (Battleship Gray),
2020 BLACK KNIGHT (Black wrinkle).
2019 BLUE DIAMOND (Auto chrome/blue).
2018 RED RIDER (Fire engine red).
2017 GOLDFINGER (Gold flake).
2016 SILVERADO (Chrome/Silver flake).
2015 GI JOE (Army camo green),
2014 DEEP BLUE SEA (Dark Navy Blue).
2013 BROWNSTONE (Walnut Brown).
2012 YELLOW JACKET (Ga Tech Yellow).
2011 GRAY PHANTOM (Machine Gray).
2010 no name, just doing refurbs.
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