korting: 1007W (1007); dial lamp reflector?

Radio friends,

I'm servicing a Körting 1007 for someone.  The radio is now working very well, but the dial lighting is very poor.  The dial lamp is mounted on top of the chassis, a bit behind the dial, without any direct light path to most of the dial.

Did this radio originally have some kind of reflective shroud to chanel the light into the dial area?  Or is this simply a poor design that always has very dim lighting of the dial?

As it is now, the upper red pointer is barely visible, and the lower green pointer is virtually impossible to see.

Tom

P.S.:  On a different subject, the original type EM85 eye tube seems to be impossible to find, but I'm having good results with an EM81/6DA5 with the socket rewired.

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I was able to make a suitable reflector out of white paper taped in place.  This greatly improved the visibility of the dial pointers.

Not clear whether this radio originally had some kind of similar reflector originally, but it must have, since otherwise there is no direct path from the dial light to most of the dial.

Tom

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