[ARC5] [armyradios] RE: [Milsurplus] Russian radio construction techniques

[John Watkins]

My US-9 (Soviet BC-348) has red marker varnish on each solder joint.  Made in 1976. Really nicely constructed.  Has the solid state supply.

John WD5ENU

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On Mar 30, 2016, at 20:48, "Meir WF2U wf2u at ws19ops.com [armyradios]" <armyradios at yahoogroups.com> wrote:

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> I have several Russian military radios from  the late 1940's to the 1970's and none of them has the kind of connections you're describing. Most of the later equipment I have, has some kind of red or purple lacquer on the regular solder joints, similar to what is used in US mil spec equipment.
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> Meir WF2U
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> From: Clare Owens <clare.owens at gmail.com> 
> Date: 3/30/2016 7:22 PM (GMT-05:00) 
> To: armyradios at yahoogroups.com, Milsurplus <Milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>, "Discussion of AN/ARC-5 military radio equipment." <ARC5 at mailman.qth.net> 
> Subject: [Milsurplus] Russian radio construction techniques 
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> Hi All,
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> A friend of mine who collects and restores USA and foreign radios just received a 1958 Russian receiver, model "Iskra 53" and has discovered that in his words, "rather than normal solder all of the component connections are made with brazed copper that must have been done with some sort of hand held copper wire feed arc welder!  In other words, it is impossible to unsolder any joints in the radio!"
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> Seems pretty odd.  Dave Stinson has suggested that maybe the Stalinists were running short of lead.  Or maybe the radios were meant to be unmodifiable by the common people.
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> Anybody else seen anything like this?  I can send pix to anyone who wants to see the radio's innards.
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> Thanks,
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> Clare
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