[ARC5] Can yoiu say...

[howard holden]

My dad used to collect old broken TV sets for scavenging, and my brother 
and I got to implode all those picture tubes. Great fun, but we sure 
scattered a bunch of glass in the woods behind our house. The necks 
would go up like a rocket.....

There was one big power supply chassis that sat in my grandfather's 
Dumont radio-TV (it had the old FM band, around 42Mhz). My dad used that 
supply to power a Gonset G76 which I still have, along with that supply. 
Still works.

This is an area of ham radio, not unlike the surplus stuff, that the 
newer guys will never really know.

Howie WB2AWQ

On 6/14/2017 4:15 PM, Robert Nickels wrote:
> On 6/13/2017 3:13 PM, Nick England wrote:
>> don't tell the Antique TV Collectors Society about all the sets I 
>> took apart as a kid in the 50's - gaining lots of nifty parts for my 
>> fledgling junkbox.
>
> Boy Nick, I hadn't worried about those guys...til now!   I would have 
> gladly molested ARC-5 stuff if I'd had any when I was a yout', but the 
> best I could do was the occasional Philco or Admiral from my dad's VFW 
> buddy who'd drop the chassis off in our driveway - or sometimes the 
> whole thing.  That was extra fun because I'd get to bash the mahogany 
> or whatever cabinet up with a sledge hammer!  But I was forbidden to 
> mess with the picture tubes, until one day when my dad and I hauled 
> the half-dozen or so I'd accumulated out to the dump (remember 
> "dumps"?) and throw rocks at 'em from a safe distance til they 
> imploded.   I'm sure I busted up a couple of "roundies" and enough old 
> consoles with record changers to give audiophools the vapors.  Of 
> course I kept the 6L6s and such from those prehistoric "monoblocks" 
> ;-)!   Heck, I kept *every* part with leads long enough to solder to.
>
> Growing up in Nebraska, the closest to surplus I came was the Surplus 
> Center on West "O" St. in Lincoln.   They put out a catalog which was 
> mostly stuff I didn't understand or care about like hydraulics and 
> motors, but they once sold a "Grab Bag" of electronic stuff for $10 if 
> I recall.  I got one and it provided the J-38 key I used as a novice 
> and other useful goodies, like a Geiger tube.    I wouldn't have known 
> what to do with an ARC-5 if I'd had one, but chances are I would have 
> hot-rodded it with some extra toggle switches and stuff and probably 
> painted it to look more like a proper transmitter, i.e. a Knight T-60 
> or something like you'd see in the cool guys station pictures in the 
> Novice column of Pop'Tronics.
>
> Speaking of hot-rods, maybe these "unfinished" hack jobs are the radio 
> equivalent of a rat-rod - made for go, not for show.  The rat-radio!
>
> 73, Bob W9RAN
>
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