Don, Hop over from Pittsburgh to Cleveland and I'll put the torch to work. I'll make another one for this ht9 getting the workover this winter.
de KA4JVY Mark --- David Knepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looks like a great project for these heavy boatanchors. The dolly should > come with a hoist to pull these heavy units up in the air for attachment to > the dolly! > > Just kidding. > > Dave, W3ST > Publisher of the Collins Journal > Secretary to the Collins Radio Association > www.collinsra.com > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Merz Donald S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'Amradio (E-mail)" <[email protected]>; "'Glowbugs (E-mail)" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 11:43 AM > Subject: [AMRadio] Anyone Want To Do Some Welding? > > > During my long-awaited and far too short vacation this month, I dropped in > on Morry, K3DPJ. He's been fighting through a lot of health problems but > seems to be in good spirits. Morry is a mechanical and electronic wizard who > has done precision work for a glowing list of clients. For fun, he built > steam engines and boilers from scratch. His workmanship is incredible. > > Morry is also an active ham, boatanchor restorer and quite knowledgeable > about hollow state and solid state repair. Like many of us, he's got a lot > of projects going on at once. One of these is a rebuild of a Gonset HF amp > using 4 811As in a grounded grid configuration. But I wasn't so much > interested in the Gonset as I was in the rig holding the amp's chassis. > > Morry built himself a thing to hold almost any chassis and allow it to be > rotated into several different, convenient positions. The thing is > simplicity itself. It starts with a $29.95 engine dolly from Wal Mart. > Bolted onto that is Morry's chassis jig which is welded together out of > ordinary steel angle iron and square tubes. The chassis is held on by some > sort of machinists clamps that he showed me--I forget the brand name but 3 > of them held that Gonset chassis like glue. The width of chassis that can be > accommodated is adjustable. > > If a person could weld, and has a way to cut and drill the steel, I am > guessing it would take maybe an hour to build one of these and something > less to turn out copies. Morry said that he would be willing to produce some > drawings in AutoCAD if anyone was interested. But he doesn't have time to > devote to building them himself. > > Well, boo hoo--I can't weld and have none of the tools necessary to do this. > But I want one of these. So I thought I would throw the idea out to the > list: If I get these drawings from Morry, is there anyone on the list who > might also want one and who could take on the welding and cutting work? > > 73, Don Merz, N3RHT > ______________________________________________________________ > AMRadio mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > ______________________________________________________________ > AMRadio mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html > Post: mailto:[email protected] > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
