Hi All,

At my secret headquarters, I have a couple of bell boxes similar to
this

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/External-Alarm...QQcmdZViewItem

but the horizontal design.

They were looking a bit tired so I decided to take them down and paint
them and make up some new signage for them with my table top publishing
system and laminator, and possibly add a flashing led if I can be
bothered to wire up an LV supply to them.

I have given one of them a few coats of car type (cellulose??) primer
and then a top coat, but whtether due to the paint being old stock, or
my ineptitude with a spray can, the result isn't brilliant.

I wondered about going out to buy a new can of top coat, but then
thought by the time i'd done that and bought another can of primer for
the second box, I could probably have bought a more modern looking bell
box.

I had a look on ebay, but most of them seem to be going for silly
money.

So, to the questions............

Firstly, is any self respecting theif going to be frightened off by the
sight of an old style bell box, or do I need to re -invest in something
more sexy?

If the latter, does anyone know a good source of these?

Cheers