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« Reply #1 on: June 10, 2016, 03:53:41 PM » |
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« Reply #2 on: June 10, 2016, 05:34:58 PM » |
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Funny you should say that !!
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« Reply #3 on: June 10, 2016, 07:57:18 PM » |
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Another interesting thing he has listed is a BC-611, which he calls a "field phone".
Kinda makes you wonder ....
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« Reply #4 on: June 10, 2016, 09:02:33 PM » |
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I guess that last transmission was just a TAD too long!  Fire investigator to ham: "Sir, what alerted you to the fact there was a problem?" |
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« Reply #5 on: June 10, 2016, 10:14:50 PM » |
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50 cents worth of scrap metal. The seller is smoking something. He's crazy if he thinks this piece of junk is worth anything.
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« Reply #6 on: June 11, 2016, 01:46:40 AM » |
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HOT STUFF!
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« Reply #7 on: June 11, 2016, 08:13:04 AM » |
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The mystery to me is why an apparently equally aged in place 250 TH remains while all the boltable iron is long gone. Tube looks unmolested and untested. Seller only needs the Dec. '41 Wheeler Island documentation to Jack the price up to $1000. Urk. |
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« Reply #8 on: June 11, 2016, 09:27:11 AM » |
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« Reply #9 on: June 11, 2016, 11:55:35 AM » |
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Sirs,
What you witness in this example, and unfortunately many others on the auction site in question, is pure ignorance. People trying to sell stuff and make a wad not knowing SH$T from shinola about what they have.
Maybe, if the seller did proper research on the item, he could possibly sell the remains for 40 bucks or so in a local sale to someone who could see the potential for a usable cabinet to do a HB rig. As usual, it will never sell and his wife will probably give him so much grief about it sitting around that it will be hauled to the scrap yard for a net of $12; just enough to cover the gas and a couple dollar menu items at McDonalds.
Oh well, just remember that most of the sellers there are "businessmen"; but that's a joke and a whole different story for another time.
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« Reply #10 on: June 11, 2016, 02:55:08 PM » |
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Would there be a cabinet left after that mess was sand blasted? Maybe I'm too lazy but I don't think even the cabinet is worth the time to do all that work let alone sanding it by hand. Racks are free.
Isn't something missing in the bottom? power supply?
The tubes might have been left because they were gassed and someone of the type who just can't throw anything away left them 'safely' stored there for future use as a display items. now 40 years later after it sat under a downspout in the garden.. where there is a rectangular pile of rust in the earth that used to be the bottom chassis and is now an ant city.
sorry there is some junk even I would not touch.
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« Reply #11 on: June 11, 2016, 03:28:59 PM » |
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Would there be a cabinet left after that mess was sand blasted? Maybe I'm too lazy but I don't think even the cabinet is worth the time to do all that work let alone sanding it by hand. Racks are free.
Isn't something missing in the bottom? power supply?
The tubes might have been left because they were gassed and someone of the type who just can't throw anything away left them 'safely' stored there for future use as a display items. now 40 years later after it sat under a downspout in the garden.. where there is a rectangular pile of rust in the earth that used to be the bottom chassis and is now an ant city.
sorry there is some junk even I would not touch.
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« Reply #14 on: June 12, 2016, 11:54:06 PM » |
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Diesel boats and tube gear forever!
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« Reply #15 on: June 13, 2016, 01:01:43 AM » |
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My gawd, what a rusted BC-610 turd!
My first reaction: Flounder's frat pledge picture on Animal House.
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« Reply #16 on: June 13, 2016, 09:18:51 AM » |
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Hey, his logo is 'Genuine Nissan Parts' on eBay.
That makes it all the worse.... Lol. Those wwii machines where made to demolish Mitsubishi and Nissan!
The gall of the man! Lol
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« Reply #17 on: June 13, 2016, 09:21:13 AM » |
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About that extremely rare power supply, you guys don't realize what a gem it is. I mean, look closer. it was built by none other than "Harvey Wells" for his first ever prototype transmitter. Says so in rare autographed pencil right on it, and where, I ask, will you find such a nice 6.3v at 10 transformer along with pre-dried nut mounted capacitors. The full weight of the HV transformer guarantees very high current, point contact with the bottom edge of the case for the wires passing to the outside directly under it . Instant current capacity self test. Now that's genius. --I rest his case. . |
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« Reply #18 on: June 13, 2016, 09:27:09 AM » |
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MOST eBayers are still living in that fake bubble of an era long gone....That there are a lot of people that will pay their high prices for pure junk.
The listing here for the BC610 cabinet and other stuff is not worth a 1/4 of what the sellers are asking...
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« Reply #19 on: June 13, 2016, 01:22:20 PM » |
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http://www.ebay.com/itm/radio-transmitter-BC-610-H-US-ARMY-WW11-/252392602547?hash=item3ac3c57bb3:g:PhwAAOSwsN9W~v15That second picture takes the cake. There are a handful of diehards out there who would actually put in $5K and 1000 hours to restore it to original. Something akin to taking in a stray dog and nursing him back to health... I get it... :-) T
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« Reply #20 on: June 13, 2016, 01:25:01 PM » |
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similar comedy price structure on the screen supply.
...link...
However it might be worth looking the AN/WRA-1 equipment up on the web to find the schematic for the supply and using it to make one's own.
So does anyone have more info on the AN/WRA-1? All I can find is a Navy reference saying it was a field change adding SSB capability to the TBL transmitter. |
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« Reply #21 on: June 13, 2016, 10:58:35 PM » |
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Heck, I've got a BC610I model that's pretty nice and all there, with a rebuildable speech amp that I'd let go for half that. It's even got the tubes!  |
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« Reply #22 on: June 14, 2016, 02:38:09 AM » |
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similar comedy price structure on the screen supply.
...link...
However it might be worth looking the AN/WRA-1 equipment up on the web to find the schematic for the supply and using it to make one's own.
So does anyone have more info on the AN/WRA-1? All I can find is a Navy reference saying it was a field change adding SSB capability to the TBL transmitter. I didn't find it either. If the seller had a hi-res image of the underside, it would be simple to divine.. maybe ask? The big question - is it an 811 or 812? |
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« Reply #23 on: June 17, 2016, 02:18:45 PM » |
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