[ARC5] Managing Yiour Colection

[mstangelo at comcast.net]

I've been following this discussion.

 I moved into my present house in1998. This was the first house where me and my wife had enough space to store all of our goodies.

While employed I don't have the time to work on all of my projects so I've been waiting until I'm retired. I still have a couple of years to go but I realize I'll never finish all of my projects. My daughter is still in college but we may want to downsize when she leave the nest. I also had to emply my parent's and an aunt's house and I don't want to put my daughter through that hassle withour house.

Therefore I've decided to thin out the collection at my leasure. I'm not out to make a killing nor do I want to hassle with shipping so I've been selling at hamfests.

Also, I don't have crystal ball. I can't predict how my health or how the economy will be down the road.
 
I'm curious. I notice lots of baby boomers are holding onto their mint equipment. When do they intend to dispose of it and who do they intend to sell it to?


73,

Mike N2MS

----- Original Message -----
From: J. Forster <jfor at quik.com>
To: Discussion of AN/ARC-5 military radio equipment. <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 16:10:15 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: [ARC5] Managing Yiour Colection

On the surface what you say makes some sense, but if you have spent years
completing systems and looking for those rare bits, it does not.
Furthermore, I have lots of test gear that I've cleaned, tested and
calibrated. Selling that off is flushing the time and effort down the
drain.

Cetrtainly selling off average condition ARC-5s or BC-348s or whatever
that's in storage from a flea makes some sense, but certainly not across
the board.

FWIW,

-John