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I have success repairing a hole like that. However I had to canabalize another bakelite cabinet. There are plenty of broken brown bakelite cabinets aound so that should not pose too much of a problem.
I filed the hole evenly to a circular shape. I then from cut the donated cabinet a plug to closley match the hole. It took a while but with a little patience, you can file it to the shape of the hole with no perceptible gaps.
The then epoxied in place the plug. I did not use the 5 minute variety expoxy but one which took a bit longer to harden so that I could clamp the plug in place. The plug I made was slightly thicker (1/32") and so clamping on the outside with a steel plate and on the inside with a piece of timber (poplar) ensured the plug was absolutely flush with the cabinet surface.
After the epoxy fully hardened, I went at it with fine and the finer wet and dry paper and then pumice and rottenstone until the original lustre was restored.
I was very pleased with the result: the plug matched the cabinet very well and even looking at it closely, I found the repair hard to detect.
Terry
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