[ARC5] looking for an in tact BC-451 tx control box

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

Another quite usable local tuning knob is one of the plastic knobs that 
used to be common on AC-DC radios and the like.  The ones that were push-on 
onto the splined volume control posts.  These have no backlash.  The only 
drawback to them is appearance and usually the wierd color.

Robert Downs - Houston
wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
MVPA 9480

In a message dated 12/16/2015 10:46:50 AM Central Standard Time, 
kgordon2006 at frontier.com writes: 
> In addition, the only original "local" TUNING controls I have routinely 
> seen 
> are those "tuning keys", or as some call them, the "wee knob", that were 
> included with some receivers inside the top lid along with a small dial 
> which 
> was meant to be attached to the remote tuning control, BC-450 (?) or such.
> 
> However, those have very, very noticable and annoying back-lash.
> 
> There are, of course, those very few "crank-handle" type tuning knobs 
> (type 
> 6743?), but those also have excessive back-lash. In addition, when those 
> show up on eBay their average selling/buying price is at least $30 each.
> 
> For "local control" tuning, I much prefer my simple piece of 1/4" brass 
> tubing 
> with a knob attached.
> 
> With that there is no backlash.
> 
> Ken W7EKB
>