[Boatanchors] voltage on the speaker???

[Glen Zook]

Actually, by 1955 Heath was not buying surplus
electronics parts to any extent, definitely not
anywhere near like they were right after World War II.
 In fact, Heath was trying to be a surplus electronics
distributor right after the war.  Then in 1947 they
came out with their first "kit", an oscilloscope. 
That proved so popular that by 1949 they basically
abandoned the surplus parts business.  When Heath ran
out of the surplus CRTs that they had used in the
oscilloscope they were actually in a panic for a
little while before starting to purchase more "modern"
parts.

The AR-2 definitely had a PM speaker and I believe
that the AR-1 did as well.  I don't know of any Heath
equipment that used anything but a PM speaker.

In late 1955 Heath moved their operations from Benton
Harbor to St. Joseph, Michigan (the "H" shaped
building on Hilltop Road) although they always
maintained their mailing address in Benton Harbor.  I
grew up 35 miles from the St. Joseph plant and in high
school (1958 until 1962) used to drive up there
several times a year just to "drool" over the
equipment which was displayed in a showroom to the
left of the main entrance door to the plant.

Glen, K9STH


--- jeremy-ca <km1h at jeremy.mv.com> wrote:

Im well aware of that but you should be made aware
that Heathkit bought primarily military and commercial
surplus in those days. I could go down to Radio Row in
NYC in 55 and buy cases of the old type speakers for
pennies on the dollar.









Glen, K9STH

Website:  http://k9sth.com


       
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