----- Original Message ----- From: "gordon white" <gewhite at crosslink.net> Subject: Re: [ARC5] [Milsurplus] ARC-5 Receiver Question > ... I think (not positive) that the SCR-183 units were always > anodized or varnished aluminum........ Sorry, Gordon; All of them were painted until the 1942 W.E. -AP order number 292-PHILA-42, which was bare.