The discussion about the RA100 reminds me how these transmitters, when we are forced to dismantle them, can live on in other small and large ways.
I clipped off and saved each and every one of the large wire lugs on the harnesses which had been carefully placed by some Raytheon worker on the 1946-postwar assembly line in Massachusetts. The reason is that those lugs are thicker, the strain crimps are stronger, and the metal seems "better" at taking solder than any of today's versions intended only to be crimped, not soldered. Sure enough, when I recently landed an RCA Type 76 Console (ca. 1948) it needed a harness between the separate power supply and the board. Do you think I could tolerate seeing little yellow plastic 'handles' on today's crimp lugs? No way ! So, out came the Raytheon parts bin, carefully stored away. There, still with the cutoff wire ends and that strange woven-fiberglass cloth insulation, was the handful of proper lugs I knew I wanted to use someday. Except for you lugs reading this, I'm the only person who ever sees them. But I know ... Paul/VJB __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ______________________________________________________________ AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:[email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
