[Boatanchors] RE-2/ARC-5

[hwhall at compuserve.com]

The aviation museum I volunteer at has a small number of these units in pretty good looking shape, some near new looking. Some I've seen have the vacuum cap and some didn't. They were packed inside a crate in reusable bucket-like containers. (Were these maybe on the way to or from depot? There were other things in the buckets in the same crate.) 

Their guy in charge of selling memorabilia has one that is spiffied up on a lucite stand with an historical info plaque that he's asking about $140. Hasn't sold one yet, I think. Unlike most of the airplane related stuff for sale, this isn't as obviously related to flying as, for instance, prop blades or other airplane bits & pieces.

Anyway, I mentioned that there were vintage mil radio guys that could use some of them or parts from them so he asked me to see what sort of interest there might be. Is there much call for them these days and what range of price would they bring in the radio op community (versus the art collector types)?

He'd sell you the bucket thingies, too, if someone needed that!

73,
Wayne
WB4OGM