[ARC5] Vintage military equipment and MFP fragrance

[sbjohnston at aol.com]

Oh, wow - you are not kidding.  Fair Radio was "ground-zero" for those smells.   

I sometimes catch a whiff of it in a good Army-Navy Surplus Stores if they have some vintage equipment on hand.  An example is Skycraft Surplus in Orlando, Florida.
For some time in Wisconsin, I had a BC-221 frequency meter opened up in my small auxiliary shop in my work-from-home office - smelled very nice.  When I finished the project, I left a tray holding the removed vintage parts which acted like an air freshener or potpourri for me.  

I was retrofitting the BC-221 with a modern QRP Labs transceiver and 50 watt PA...
https://www.wd8das.net/BC-221X/BC-221X.html
Someone had already partially gutted that particular freq meter, so don't get too upset at the sacrilege. 


Steve WD8DAS   

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    On Tuesday, April 1, 2025 at 06:56:38 AM HST, n3lll -- <n3lll at kitparts.com> wrote:   

 The olfactory memory was always activated when walking in the door of Fair Radio sales in Lima, Ohio. ... tom, N3LLL
On Sun, Mar 30, 2025 at 5:05 PM sbjohnston--- via ARC5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net> wrote:


I am trying to get back to my project to build a 3885 AM transmitter-receiver into a reproduction BC-611 case.  I think I keep putting this project aside because the parts do not have the proper smell.  

Has anyone bottled the vintage military gear and/or MFP smell?  I definitely need it for this project.


Steve WD8DAS   

sbjohnston at aol.com   
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