[Boatanchors] Int'l Crystal Closing their doors in May

[Brian Harris]

Perhaps we will be fortunate and an enterprising person or group will purchase International's assets and technology so they might carry on the business, perhaps with a different business model.  wa5uek 

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> On Mar 12, 2017, at 5:23 PM, <manualman at juno.com> <manualman at juno.com> wrote:
> 
> There are lots of companies that make crystals. The problem is that many
> will not just make one crystal for a specific frequency or if they would,
> the initial setup charges would be out of this world.
> 
> ICM was/is amateur friendly and their pricing for single lot crystals was
> reasonable. Plus, unlike many other companies, they kept a detailed
> documented history on many of the vintage, and not so vintage rigs, as to
> the type of oscillators the crystal would be used in, so they could
> tailor the crystal to guarantee it would work in a rig. A specific
> crystal made at "X" frequency by different manufacturers without knowing
> the specific circuit parameters, does not guarantee that they would all
> work properly, or at all, in the circuit. Tolerance, frequency stability,
> load and shunt capacitance, resistance, drive level are parameters a
> crystal manufacture needs to know in order to make a crystal at a
> specific frequency.
> 
> The last time I checked with Bomar, which was years ago, their single
> price to make a crystal at a specific frequency was in the stratosphere.
> I was also told that JAN doesn't make specific crystals anymore but have
> not confirmed that. Sentry Crystals, who also made single lot crystals,
> was bought by ICM back in 2005.
> 
> Pete, wa2cwa
> 
> 
> On Sun, 12 Mar 2017 16:48:04 -0500 Rob Atkinson <ranchorobbo at gmail.com>
> writes:
>> I don't believe I recommended buying off-shore.  I theorized on a
>> possible reason ICM is going out of business.
>> 
>> There are alternatives to ICM.  Don't know if they are better or 
>> worse
>> but they are all American:  JAN, Bomar, Crystek.
>> 
>> Carling, do you grind crystals to order?  Or do you just order, 
>> like
>> everyone else, repack and resell?
>> 
>> 73
>> 
>> Rob
>> K5UJ
> 
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