This topic reminds me, i have a BC-453 in this condition:

No top cover. Local adaptor opening on front panel is empty. It is clean. Plain alu finish, not black.

I really have no interest in this thing. I got it free, simply because a fellow member of the Puget Sound Antique Radio Ass’n got it,

and i knew she had neither the abilities or interest to do anything with it.  
I don’t know for sure where the thing is. I may turn it up next week or 2 months from now.

But – i will mail it to a requestor, free but for shipping, rounded up to next whole dollar. No penny-pinching exactness; that just

makes me mad. I am thinking USPS parcel. Send me your email with reply ( if any replies. ) Failing to do this with reply eliminates

you from consideration. If more than one request – i dunno, maybe first reply, maybe other considerations ? I just dunno at this

time. Just remembered the thing today.

-Hue Miller
Newport, Oregon