[AMRadio] Cut up vibroplex clarification

[CL in NC]

I don't want to cut any of my Vibroplexes in half, and I remember thinking the same thing when I read that article, who would cut up a Vibroplex?  But, a friend of mine has one he got in a collection of old keys and wants to sell it on ebay.  If he could include a copy of the original article about the modification of it, 'provenience' of a sort, might help him sell it.  

He just sold a home made bug he paid a dollar for at a hamfest a while back, wrote up a wonderful BS story about it that any ham could see through and would enjoy the humor, put it in the description in the Ebay ad, started the bid at a couple bucks, and it sold for over $130.    The arm was a bit of hacksaw blade, and as he said, made back in the 'Hacksawian age' where a ham would build anything to save a buck.  The spirit of P.T. Barnum lives on ebay.  It was a very nice copy of a Vibroplex though, so it may have had a collector value to the buyer.

There was a fellow selling a fancy jar with a lid, full of old components, pots, resistors, capacitors, bits of wire, tube sockets removed from gear, as called it 'techno art'.  He has actually sold a couple at $125 each, so maybe all those old burnt out parts you might have laying around may find a life on somebody's mantle.  Go to WallyWorld and buy some fancy jars.

Charlie, W4MEC in NC