Today's haul - the saga continues

Between estates and 'someone dropped off all this junk', a ham friend is cleaning his place up and graced us with the things on this list. Not sure which is the best find -probably the crystal hoard-, but it's all interesting for the most part. A discovery was made about radio smell. Or a hypothesis about it. Ultimately, an old radio is like a fine dish prepared by a chef..

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gear:

Boonton Model 31 Intermodulation meter.
"With completely self -contained test signal generator, analyzer, voltmeter and power supply. Model 31 aids in obtaining peak performance from audio systems, AM and FM receivers and transmitters."

TS-382A/U audio oscillator. Nameplate is gone but I think it's the TS-382A/U model from comparing pictures. Boat anchor and a classic H/P design 20-200,000Hz unit with a 6V6 as output.

Tektronix scopes in various states:
432 dual channel scope 25Mhz
453 dual channel delayed scope 50Mhz
T912 Storage scope 10MHz

Kenwood TM721A dual band 2 meter / 70cm mobile transceiver.
It's written that the display does not light up and it has yet to be checkes out, but isn't my kind of thing really.

J.W. Davis surface-mount wall-speaker baffle. The 8"driver inside is English-made, ELAC brand. There's a 8:500 Ohm transformer in there, was probably used with a nice old receiver. Reminds me of school in the 1960s. Should be a fine speaker for a boat anchor.

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books:

The New RTTY Handbook, by Kretzman W2JTP, "CQ" series.

Collins KWT-6 Type 8 Transceiver instruction book. The KWT-6 is probably rare. It's a 500W, 2-30MC, AM-E/ISB/USB/LSB/FSK unit, in a true 'open' style 19" relay/telco rack

Not sure ehat to do with these other books. Fun to look through I guess.
About a 1 FT stack of Sams books, mostly Car Radio volumes, at least one tape recorder volume.

1972 Japanese Monochrome TV service manual (TAB 602)

1970 Philco Color TV Service Manual (TAB 522)

1973 Vol. 2 Servicing the new modular color TV receivers (TAB 663)

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Crystals - The best find in this lot.
Hundreds and hundreds of them in 2 boxes and 2 large jars, maybe over 1000, which I will have to get to at a later time so please don't ask.

-most do not seem be on specific ham transmit freq's, but are to be multiplied. I was told there are 6 meter and 2 meter crystals included, but it's clear they are on many services, and in all kinds of holders/packages, one even looks like a metal 6L6, and many many HC-6 types, some of the small HC-49's, some Motorola plug-in 'elements' -the kind with inbuilt ovens, looks like a 'vibrasponder' or two, and a heapin' helpin' of the very old CR-8/CR-6/FT-243 and CR-1A/HC-11 holders, presumed occupied.

There is also a very old square plastic tray of sorts that looks like it could be screwed to a workbench. It has 84 places in a 6x14 arrangement to hold CR-1 or CR-6 encased crystals. Each location has two holes for the pins to drop through. They would be kept in an orderly manner that way. Maybe a device from a radio shop? The original owner was heavily involved in many goverrnment, ham, and commercial communications activities.

There are also a few sets of several identical crystals as though they were a stock of them for a specific equipment type all on the same frequency, so this could be the makings of some crystal ladder filters moving forward.

Here's a hypothesis: In regard to OLD RADIO SMELL, and how it is like a pleasant and balanced aroma of a savory stew, OLD CRYSTAL SMELL is like the Garlic and best had in reasonable doses. It's the realy old crystal holders, rather than the HC-6 and newer permanently enclosed rocks.

Could this be why the best-smelling classic radios have but one or two crystals? To give them that extra something? Or maybe it's just a big box of old crystals that hasn't been touched in decades.