[ARC5] Questions that need answers

[Floyd Petri]

It seems to me that when Hams sell stuff on eBay something happens to them. 
Maybe not all of them, but mostly the ones that I ask questions to. I am not 
a Ham. I am a collector. It is like I am a person that is not worthy of 
their time or knowledge and they tend to blow me off. If I ask 3 or 4 
questions about their radio equipment they may answer the first one and 
never answer the rest of them. It happens so much that I am now taking a 
different view of them. I think that they are not smart enough to answer the 
questions. Not smart enough to remove 4 screws and look inside and interpret 
what they see and relay the information back. It is either that or they 
don't care and if a Ham does not care then Hams will die out because that 
kills the interest of those wanting to become Hams. Now that I have that out 
of my system I will ask my questions here where I always get answers and the 
people seem to be knowledgeable, smart and caring.

It would have been better to have gotten the answers about the specific 
equipment for sale, but I can forget biding on it and concentrate on fixing 
the equipment that I have. I doubt very seriously that I am the only one 
that has ever wanted to know the answer to these questions and I definitely 
know that someone on this list has the answers.

My questions deal with the Adapter that plugs into the front of the 
SCR-274-N Command Receivers or ARC-5 receivers. All of my receivers have 
what must be the Ham conversion on the FT-260-A adapter (I don't have the 
literature on this conversion). There is a pot, a switch and a headset jack 
added. Upon removing the 4 screws and looking inside I find that the socket 
on the  FT-260-A has been removed and all the wiring added to the pot, 
switch and headset jack is just tightly wound around the pins of the socket 
of the receiver. Thank God none of them are soldered to the pins. I guess it 
was too much trouble to determine if their receiver listed on eBay was wound 
in, soldered in or had a socket so it would plug in. Everyone can remove a 
million screws and remove all the covers and plates and take pictures of it 
dissected, but no one can remove the 4 screws and answer that question. I am 
sorry. I did not mean to start on that again.

Where is what I want to know. Is there a plug in adapter that has the 
switch, pot and headset jack that is factory so it can be plugged in and 
unplugged? If not is there any sockets available with enough connection that 
can be used to replace the one in it with only two connections in the 
FT-260-A so that I can make my own? Here is what I want to do. I want to add 
a switch, pot, headset jack and a socket with enough connectors to an 
existing FT-260-A or convert another FT type adapter to do the same or find 
a replacement socket with enough connectors to finish out the ones in the 
receivers that I already have. My goal is to have one adapter that I can 
plug into any receiver and test it without having to put it into a rack to 
do it. So does anyone have the adapter for sale or know where I can get the 
socket?

Thanks in advance.

Floyd