[Boatanchors] [Milsurplus] A Good Start for 2017

[Bob Groh]

Dave, hugely enjoyed your pictures and comments on your old radio. I've got
one almost as 'new' (dates to late 1910's or early 1920's) and a couple
others from roughly the same era and one of these days, I would love to
give it a try.  Nice to see your old lady lit up.  Thanks for your pictures
and commentary.

73
Bob Groh, WA2CKY

On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 10:54 AM, David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Feher" <n4fs at eozinc.com>
> Subject: RE: [Milsurplus] A Good Start for 2017
>
>
> Dave -
>>
>> The BC-9 originally used VT-1 tubes. 73 & HNY - Mike
>>
>
> Thanks for writing, Mike, and you are absolutely correct.
> However- Good Western Electric VT-1s, if I could find them, would require
> a sizeable lottery
> win to purchase.  The direct-replacement GE VT-11s are also nearly
> unubtainable and
> nearly equal in expense.  With a slight adjustment of filament supply
> voltage (6 VDC vs 4 VDC),
> the proper 5V is delivered to the 01As and I believe
> they will work in this application.
>
> I've been asked why I'm reviving this 95-year-old
> radio- shouldn't it be kept untouched?  It's a fair question.  My goal is
> to both enjoy reviving and operating these
> veterans and seeing them preserved beyond my time with them;  I don't see
> myself so much their "owner" as a temporary steward of them.
> Cold, dead radio "mummies" sitting on a shelf stir little to no interest;
> "radio museums" are closing all the time and their collections are going to
> the recyclers.  A working radio,
> singing and reminding the viewer of their mission
> and history- those get noticed and thus, have a better chance to be
> preserved. "Radio Mummies" end-up as beer cans.
>
> Why do you see fewer WWII milradios offered?
> Because most of them sat in garages until Gramps could "get around to it,"
> and the only thing "got around to" was Gramps, by The Grim Reaper.
> The kids shovel all his "old radio junk" into the dumpster and it's gone
> forever.
>
> The question is "how can I make this radio play
> while doing no significant, meaningful damage to it?"  I know people who
> would say heating
> a solder joint "damages" it.  Well, maybe.
> But read what I just wrote again and "pick your poison:"  an "undamaged
> radio" on its way to the crusher or a revived one
> on its way to a new, happy steward?
>
> Anyways.... All the best for 2017.  I always look
> forward to anything you contribute.
>
> 73 OM DE Dave AB5S
>
> P.S.  The capacitors in this rig are almost a CENTURY old- Cornells
> Dubilier.  Have tested almost all of them and so far, all are good!
> https://goo.gl/photos/EAmUJPJno9HpwmAV6
> Amazing.
>
>
>
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