[Collins] NOS Collins Equipment?

Fri, 13 Sep 2002 21:37:44 -0400

Actually one essentially NOS sold on EBay a few months back. It
fetched something like 3K, not sure on the price.

According to the account, it had been taken from the box operated a
few days, put back in the box, sealed up, lost in a warehouse, and
kept from the light since the 50's. Rediscovered, in the original box.
With the paperwork, etc., complete.

If anyone wants a .jpg of the rig, and wants to remember what St.
James gray looked like NEW, before the effects of decades of
light-induced darkening, send me a post off reflector and I will
forward the pix I saved on to you.

My memory was NOT deluded as to the original color. It was as I
remembered it, not the shiny near-black 75A's you sometimes see these
days.

73, Guy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Brannigan" <[email protected]>
To: "Zap (Chris)" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 7:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Collins] NOS Collins Equipment?

> A 75A4 that has been sitting on a dealers shelf since 1957?
> so hypothetically:
>
> From a radio operator, a slight premium over a clean unmodified
unit.  After
> all these years some parts replacement (e.g.;electrolytics, some
caps and
> some resistors) and an  alignment would be necessary.
> From a collector, you could probably get their first born......
>
>
> > I was curious... does anyone know of any existing NOS Collins
equipment?
> If
> > such a thing would exist, what would the market value be on a NOS
75A-4
> for
> > instance?
> >
> > 73,
> > Chris, N9WIV
>
>
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