[ARC5] What is this flex cable for ?

[MARK DORNEY]

Funny thing about most ARB receivers you see for sale - they are almost never complete. The ARB was supplied with a “t” connector for the flex cables to accommodate 2 coffee grinder remotes, one for a pilot, one for a radio operator. Also 2 different control boxes, one for a pilot and one for a radio operator , and the pilots control box is very difficult to find.   There is also a control cable that kind of looks like an old fashioned automobile carburetor manual choke cable that controls which remote is actually being used to operate the receiver.  Plus the cables and headsets and all wiring with cable ends that are not all that common   Most of time when an ARB is found for sale, there is only one coffee grinder and maybe the operator’s control box if there is even that, and the receiver a lot of the time is heavily modified, to the point where the restoration to original condition is just not possible. 

Sounds like somebody got a great deal on those sets. 

Mark D. 
WW2RDO

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

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> On Apr 2, 2023, at 8:33 PM, Hubert Miller <Kargo_cult at msn.com> wrote:
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>> Sent: Sunday, April 2, 2023 5:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] What is this flex cable for ?
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> Look at the detailed description of the item.   13 spines on the internal cable ends. 5/8” internal turning shaft assembly ( cable ends). The splines and cable ends do not match  the ARC-5/ SCR-274-N. Funny thing about the ARC-5/ SCR-274. Aircraft Radio Corporation got kind of jinky with the flex cables for their radios - made them a different size than the flex cables being used with other military radios. 
> The cable on eBay will work with “coffee grinders”  for receivers like the ARB and those in the RU series 
> Mark D. 
>> WW2RDO
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> Thanks, Mark. I do have a few ARB and RU receivers and my intention is to sell them off. I am tempted to "upgrade" the receivers with the flex tune cable; otherwise the
> remote tuning head is pretty useless except as a look-at. But i am also sure the upgrade wouldn't work out for the eventual earnings.
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> BTW, at Puyallup hamfest last month, i saw 2 complete ARB receivers, cables, manual, looked like everything, sell for very reasonable money.
> I am pretty sure the seller is the same fellow who had the RU-GF  AC power supplies, 2 models, big and small, at Puyallup something like 3 years ago.
> Robert G., do you know this fellow's name or call ?
> I would still like to at least get photos of those supplies and document them. The "small power supply / control unit" i had never seen before.
> -Hue Miller 
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