[ARC5] R-23/ARC-5, etc

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

I have quite a few badly hacked R-23/ARC-5s and BC-453s here that were given to me by 
one of my early employers.

Many of these were hacked up to make them tunable to one or the other of the Navy's VLF 
stations for some research he was doing at the time.

Many of these are actually restorable, at least, to use as Q-5ers, anyway.

I also have boxes of the IF transformers, BFO transformers, and coil-boxes for these 
receivers.

Perioidically, I'll dig one out and "restore" it to use

Some of these require "body work". I use JB Weld to fill in the holes, clamp a small aluminum 
plate or two over both sides of the hole to make things as flat as possible, then sand and 
black-wrinkle-paint the outsides (of those which were originally black-wrinkle).

Some really badly hacked-up ones I will sometimes follow that modifications to the "Poor 
Man's 75A-4" (dumb name) which adds a product-detector, "switchable" side-bands, and a 
better AGC.

These make really fine "Q-5ers" for my collection of vintage receivers.

I have a small collection of the BC band receivers, also, hacked up in various ways from petty 
minimal (1 or 2) to fully totally ruined, but restorable to use by extensive body and electronic 
work. I think I have 5 or 6 of the latter. So far, the only person who asked about them 
determined that they involved too much work, but I think they are worth it. The necessary IF 
cans and coil boxes are in my stash. BFO transformers are another matter, but I think I have 
a few. I got some of these from Phil at Fair. They were NIB.

Here is a youtube video of one of my MF receivers which I restored to use.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlz83QXM66A

I have two more videos on a BC-454 I restored too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dRFoIqyalA

and here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dRFoIqyalA

Ken W7EKB