[Boatanchors] ITT Mackay 3010C

[Sandy Blaize]

Dear SWL,

be EXTREMELY CAREFUL if you find a supposedly "nice looking" Mackay 3010 
receiver!  Two things are EXTREMELY important and require the utmost of 
attention on your part.
1.  The dial drive "belts" have a tendency to rot and start 
disintegrating and eventually break.  The receiver is totally useless 
without these belts and no exact replacements exist (or have existed for 
quite a few years).

2. The semitransparent fibreglass dial belt that runs on 16 mm motion 
picture film sprockets VERY frequently will have it's sprocket holes 
enlarged and not be readable within 2-3 khz or more. This occurs if the 
radio officer whose ship had this receiver "scanned" the band back and 
forth a lot causing the lateral enlargement of the sprocket holes and 
eventually parting the belt and rendering the frequency readout system 
useless.  TO MY BEST KNOWLEDGE, there are no replacements and none have 
been available for some time unless you run into a savvy radio operator 
who ordered 2-3 spares and stored them in his parts locker!

The receiver has some rather neat features, but can be a real bear to 
find special parts for.  Unless you find a pile of them in a warehouse 
and you are able to pick and choose, especially to see what condition 
the parts referred to above are shot or broken or worn out.

Good hunting!

73,

Sandy Blaize W5TVW
Mackay Radio New Orleans for about 20 years.  I retired just before the 
Radio Officers were eliminated from the crews!


On 8/31/2014 1:45 AM, SWL wrote:
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> I'm looking for a good ITT Mackay 3010C
>
> Marine receiver**
>