[ARC5] Whidbey Island Air Museum

[MARK DORNEY]

I won’t donate a restorable radio to any group known to just “gut” them  Not wasting my time, effort or money. And if they express dismay at the price I give to those who just won’t take no for an answer, I tell them that if they think it’s easy to put together these 80 year old sets, make them work and that they could do it cheaper, they should knock themselves out, that nobody is stopping them from doing it themselves. 

Mark D. 

“In matters of style, float with the current. In matters of Principle, stand like a rock. “.   -   Thomas Jefferson 

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> On Dec 14, 2020, at 9:35 PM, David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Yes- I heard the "we're going to gut them to save 
> weight!" bull**** more than once.  They destroy
> sets to save 8 or 10 lbs from an aircraft that was
> designed to haul many TONS, and they think 
> nothing of bringing-along their girl friends and
> 300 lbs of coolers with hotdogs, charcoal and
> cases of beer.  I guess that "extra weight" is 
> somehow magically less important than the
> few pounds inside an intact radio.  Wonder if 
> the do that crap to the nav equipment, or the 
> Nordan Bomb Sight or it's pedestal, or other 
> of the technology in the aircraft they "love" 
> so much.   I guess "radio part" mass must be
> way heavier than "case of beer" mass.
> 
> When one of those guys spews that garbage,
> frankly, I feel like kicking his butt up so high,
> he'll have to unbutton his shirt collar to fart.
> I don't do it... But I want to.
> 73 Dave AB5S
> 
> On 12/14/2020 4:34 PM, Hubert Miller wrote:
>> Many years ago, I sold a couple AVR/AVT pairs to a fellow in Bellevue, WA, who was
>> getting them for people who had flying WWII observation planes, the Cessna or Stinson
>> things. I said this disclaimer, "I do not know if these work". His reply, "That's alright,
>> they're going to empty them out anyway". Yes, that saved them 3 lbs.
>> 
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