[Boatanchors] voltage on the speaker???

[jeremy-ca]

Thats all according to the official story. Anyone who was active in the NYC 
surplus scene knows that they were buying parts there well into the mid-late 
50's.

The surplus by then was no longer all WW2 military but included much from 
the commercial manufacturers. I bought lots of the commercial stuf from BC 
variables to resistors, caps, tube sockets, transformers, IF cans, etc. I 
was always building something from VLF to 2M including a 100W 160-10M AM 
mobile with a 100A police car alternator in a 49 Ford.

All the AR series used PM speakers but it wouldnt be out of the question for 
them to substitute a cheaper version in a run or two. Im not saying they 
did, just a possibility. After all they were even more cost conscious than 
Hallicrafters. But not as bad as Madman Muntz.

I earned a fair amount of spending money as a high schooler building 
Heathkits for others. Even ran QST ads. It was during that time that I saw 
variations from one shipment to the next. The money usually went to my 
custom car and hot rod passion as well as girls. Im still into the same 
style cars (own a custom shop) and gave up chasing girls last week.

Carl
KM1H



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glen Zook" <gzook at yahoo.com>
To: "jeremy-ca" <km1h at jeremy.mv.com>; "John King" <k5pgw at yahoo.com>; 
<boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 10:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] voltage on the speaker???


> 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
>
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> --- jeremy-ca <km1h at jeremy.mv.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> Glen, K9STH
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> Website:  http://k9sth.com
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