[Collins] KWS-1 Part Needed

[LorinH@aol.com]

K1KP and WA1PGB to the rescue.

Hi Roger.

Despair not.

My name is Lorin (WA1PGB on the coast of Maine).  I am restoring a KWS-1 
under the extraordinary guidance of K1KP, Tony.  Tony fowarded to me your post In 
the course of this repair/restortaion of my own KWS-1 which I have owned for 
45 years,  I had diagnosed that one of the final tube sockets was shorted.  To 
check out this final socket I had to remove the bottom cover to the final 
compartment (not a fun job) and after its removal ran into the very grid connector 
plate of which you speak.  

First, Roger, know that your loosing this part is no accident. The 
electronically correct technical understanding for the cause of this disappearance is, 
quite simply, a poltergeist. 

Since working on this rig for over two months, I have watched in amazement as 
piece after piece and tool after tool simply disappeared.  It is likely to be 
a specific psychological blindness.  But have you noticed there is a kind of 
dark sinister playfulness, a disembodied sense of glee in the air at our 
perplexed stunned disbelief?  Colin Wilson makes very clear that these highly 
charged emotiional frustrations are what we have come to call a ploltergiest 
phenomenon,  the "I KNOW I left it here!" 

Be that as it may.  i wiil be happy to trace the shape of my own grid  sheet 
metal  connecting plate  for you on paper (if i can find the thing)  and send 
it, if you tell me where.    

While on the subject of this interesting part (with its very strange looking 
rubber insulated thing descending into the lower compartment, I believe that 
our esteemed Art Collins had either a sinister sense of humor or he was  in 
truth a spiritual master who set sanity- threatening hurdles for us to surmount 
on our spiritual journeys through the Hero's Journey of repairing one of these 
rigs.  Have you ever encountered a more difficult pair of parts to remove?  I 
can't wait to put them back together.  

You may call me anytime for moral support, but be prepared to hear a grown 
man cry.

Best 

Lorin

WA1PGB

207 567-3219 

Lorin Hollander
Cape Jellison
Stockton Springs ME 04981