[ARC5] Parts needed for ARC-5/274-N

[Clare Owens]

Well, there could be some out there somewhere hiding in an attic.  That's
where I saw two boxes of the spline ends, one box of small and one box of
the larger ones.  Unfortunately this was in about 1961 and it was the
Electrical Engineering school attic at the old University of Buffalo (now
SUNY Buffalo).  Much to my chagrin I only grabbed 6 of each.  Damn.  Each
box must have had several hundred of those little brass beauties.  The
attic had a couple of tons of WW II surplus electronics and the ME attic
had a similar quantity of mechanical and electrical goodies.  The good old
days...

Now where did I put that time machine?

Clare


On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Michael <k3mxo.hi at gmail.com> wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ARC5 [mailto:arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of D. Platt
> > I would like to find two each female spline end cut-offs, etc., as
> > would be present on each end of a tuning flex cable.
>
> Due to circumstances beyond our collective control, these have become rare
> birds indeed.  Several folks have offered suggestions as to how to handle
> the problem, all of which are valid.  As noted in an earlier massive
> missive, I am in need of several dozen of these critters.  The spline
> adaptor itself is the hard part since the rest can be machined fairly
> easily.*  The solution I'm mostly likely to take is to cast them either in
> resin or in pewter using one I have on hand as a master.**  They won't be
> as
> rugged as the originals but also won't be required to handle the stresses
> for which the originals were designed.  Casting is easy (It must be if I
> can
> do it!) and last I was at a craft store they had the materials to do so in
> assorted types of kits.
>
> * If one has a Harding or similar, it's falling off a log easy.  If one has
> a micro-lathe like mine, it's a bit more tedious.
>
> ** They can be machined as well however one's sanity would be in jeopardy
> after the 2nd or 3rd one.  In my case, this is not a factor.
>
> Best Regards,
>
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