On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:52:54 -0600, Ron wrote:

On my IC-28H there are green boots over clear lamps. Just take the boot
off the old lamps and put them on the new ones.

Ron - K0QVF

A follow-up to my original post. I purchased the lamps from Mouser as
was suggested earlier. I bought 10 because I couldn't see paying
postage on $.58 worth of lamps. Now I have some spares.

As Ron said, the green comes from little, vinyl boots that the lamps
fit into. Once you get the old lamps out, you just carefully peel the
boots off. Replacing the lamps is easy as the pads are large and easy
to solder to. The hard part is in taking the head off the radio.
There are numerous plugs that have to come out so you can get access
to the backside of the display PCB. Be careful when you unplug them
as there are two sockets for several of them. You want to get the
plugs back into the correct sockets. I'm back in business with full
display lighting. Thanks everyone for the suggestions.

73, Dick - W6CCD