[Boatanchors] [ARC5] Radio Collectors, Father Time and "Basket Cases"

[Charlie , W5COV]

I must be a nut case too . Once the challenge of repairing it to at 
least as good as when it was new and if possible , without making 
radical changes to it , better than when it was new , is the fun for me .

I do my best on cosmetics , depending on what I have to work with in the 
beginning . I don't set out to make it a complete collectors item 
cosmetic restoration . The next owner can do that if they want .

Make it work right , make someone else happy , and make myself happy by 
moving on to the next project .....

Charlie , W5COV


> If you are nuts, Ken, then you have plenty of company.
>
> I like to do this also - rescue some abandoned piece of gear,
> restore it to the best of my ability, enjoy using it on the air for days
> or weeks, then move it along to a new owner.
>
> My most intensive (from an electronic point of view) refurbishment
> was to restore an HRO-50 whose previous owner had seen fit to
> replace all the tube electronics with solid state "equivalents". Luckily
> all the RF components were still in place. All the tube bases, tag
> strips, power supply, output stage, etc, had been gutted. It was a fun
> project and of course I lost money on it, but at least there is an "almost"
> HRO-50 out there again now.
>
> 73, ian K3IMW
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Kenneth G. Gordon
> <kgordon2006 at frontier.com>wrote:
>
>> One other thing I thought I should mention as I don't know how many others
>> here might look on this sort of thing the same way as I do: I really love
>> just
>> working on this old gear, making it work at least as well as it did
>> originally.
>>
>> After I have "fixed" a piece of gear, returning it to the condition it was
>> in when
>> it left the factory, all I want to do with it after playing with it for a
>> day or two is
>> to get rid of it, and start on another one.
>>
>> I don't need to keep it after that.
>>
>> Am I nuts or are there others out there with the same attitude?
>>
>> Ken W7EKB
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