[ARC5] ARA CBY-46104 and a Question

[Bill Cromwell]

Hi Wayne,

Memories of salvaging parts from old radios and TVs to make our radio
projects have been on this and other lists. Today the most readily
available electronic junk useful for radio are the old transistor radios
<shudder>. I get then for pennies at garage sales and I buy every one of
them that I see. The sad part is getting them home, all beateh and
tattered. It's useful to know before we spend a lot of time removing
parts whether they are any good. It doesn't take much to get them
playing again and most of them work just by applying appropriate power.
I hate to tear them down.

Old computer cards have 'some' useful parts and I don't feel any remorse
harvesting those at all. Same for the CFLs.

73,

Bill  KU8H




On Sat, 2012-10-13 at 12:32 -0400, Robert Eleazer wrote:
> My 46104 I bought at a hamfest for $1.50 circa 1982.  It was unhacked but missing a tube and the top cover.  It looked pretty sad and I had planned to dismantle it to build a VFO.
> 
> But first I bought the missing tube and fired it up.  It worked fine.  I did not have the heart to take it apart as a result.  And then it quit.  Found a cold solder joint on one of the RF coils pins and after that was reheated it worked fine again.  I was impressed that I could get the LAX parking info station loud and clear from 8 miles away using no more than short hunk of wire on the floor.
> 
> Now a question:  At a hamfest this morning I bought a meter, just a meter no equipment, "USN Type CAY-22026A Type NT-33 25 CY to 20 MC Cal at 60 CY"    Anyone know what this meter fits?
> 
> Thanks
> Wayne