[ARC5] need a laugh?

[Mike Hanz]

It's not an original local control, Ken.  Originals have a ridge top and 
bottom, since they were manufactured from the same blank plate as all 
the thousands of others delivered with the sets over the years.  Couple 
of examples of ARC mods to that plate are at:

http://aafradio.org/flightdeck/RAT_Set.JPG (from 1939 and has a serial 
number plate added) and http://aafradio.org/flightdeck/arc5-4.jpg (from 
1944 and has small blocking plate added to prevent the use of CW.)  You 
can see it's the same local control, though.  Originals never had a 
phone plug, either.

For a while GL Electronics made these quick install plates for hams who 
didn't want to roll their own.  They're pretty rare in themselves these 
days.

73,
  - Mike

On 7/23/2013 12:53 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon wrote:
> On 23 Jul 2013 at 8:30, J. Forster wrote:
>
>>> The power supply is obviously mounted on an old dynamotor base, and
>>> the adapter in the front looks like one of the somewhat rare
>>> originals, or at least, most of one.
>> Really? My impression is that the company name on the panel has taken
>> an original, blank PI and modified it with a switch and pot salvaged
>> from some control box. Originals don't have manufacturers marked like
>> that, AFAIK.
> Well, what it looks like to me is an original adapter with a "stick on" company
> name, but I am most certainly no expert on these matters either! You're
> probably correct.
>
>> I didn't look. Looking at the unit, I see nothing that would have
>> required removal of the bottom plate in the mods.
> Same here.
>
> Ken W7EKB
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