[Collins] RE: 75s-3 RF gain and muting problem - Solved the good and the bad

[Gerald]

On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 18:50 -0500, David Vest wrote:
> Jerry thanks for the info and like you I can remember hanging around my
> dad's TV repair shop and going with him to pick up parts at Electronic
> Supply a local store in NE Kentucky where I grew up, he would by each
> section and put it together to come up with whatever was required.  I can
> still recall those blue and white boxes, I think Centre Labs, oh well years
> past no such places exist.

That was Centralab. I may still have some of those boxes, and some in my
dad's stuff I've been hauling this fall.
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> I had looked on Surplus sales sight but missed the pot, I was looking under
> their pages and pages of just pots did not look under their Collins parts.

I actually found it doing a google search on the Collins part number.
Got four hits, two at Surplus Sales, and two referencing the parts at
Surplus Sales from 2002 with the same $19 price.
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> Like you $19 seems high for a pot when you can find them for a buck each,
> but to get an original part for a 40 year old plus rig, that is not all bad.
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> I am going to order one and if it last another 40 years, I will feel I got
> my money's worth, HI.
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> I bet they get me for $20 shipping?

I've not dealt with them other that at a hamfest so I can't vouch for
their shipping.
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> Thanks for the help.

You're welcome.
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> Dave
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73, Jerry, K0CQ, Technical Advisor to the CRA
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