"Grant Youngman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterence to the drakelist gang ---------------------------------------------------------------------- On 20 Aug 2004 at 22:32, Dan Cotsirilos wrote:
> .. <snip> The last R-4C I parted out was a radio that > I paid full price for and it was a basket case! the tuning was all screwed > up, it had a hum and a couple other things wrong. about 10 people or so on > here all benefited by repairing there broken radios Since it may be my initial post that started some of this discussion, let me be clear where I was going. I draw a distinction between an economically unrestorarable radio that is parted out and a radio that is simply stripped of its options so that every possible separate piece can be sold independently. I still have several "parts" radios around that I offer pieces to when I see someone who needs something, and have used pieces from to complete the restoration of other radios. What "chalks my jaw", as they say, is the kit radio .. an R-4C with absolutely no options for example, when the same seller also has for sale an NB-4, 3 Drake filters, some extra band crystals, etc. Most likely the R-4C started out as a nice radio you might want to own. Or guys who sell an HRO-60 with NO coil sets, yet they have 4 coil sets, a storage box, the original shipping carton, the original manual, and a calibrator individually for sale at the same time. Last study I saw, a Mercedes was typically worth about $1M as parts. But I have no quarrel with making use of the bones of a derelict to resurrect a treasure :-) Grant/NQ5T ---------------------------------------------------------------------- On Behalf of "Grant Youngman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Submissions: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unsubscribe drakelist in body Hopelessly Lost: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - help in body of message Zerobeat Web Page: http://www.zerobeat.net Brought to you courtesy of TLCHost.net http://www.tlchost.net/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
