[CW] Morse Garage - Über Morse Garage

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    Morse Garage


    Über Morse Garage

Fred, HB9JCP

Fred HB9JCP has made parts that are no longer available from Vibroplex.  
He runs the "Morse Garage".

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Sometimes it is necessary to make certain parts yourself. No wonder, the 
company Vibroplex is already over a hundred years old! Nevertheless, it 
is astonishing that most of the parts still fit on the bows from the 
post-war period.

Thought that "all" problems had finally been solved, and others had 
already taken their place.

The knurled ones all look good and I was able to add more than three 
hundred parts to nickel including them.
Today, however, nickel plating is used with processes that simply no 
longer correspond to the quality of that time.
What is meant is that today's process is "too perfect" for my parts!

This means that many of the newly nickel-plated screws cannot be screwed 
together with the knurled nuts!
Regrooving the nickel-plated threads permanently damages my tools, now 
good advice is expensive .

Another negative point is the increasingly bad parts, which I had 
purchased directly from Vibroplex USA. Unfortunately, they no longer 
meet my quality standards in any way!

The silver contacts are square blocks, the knurled nuts and screws are 
no longer optically compatible with old bugs from Vibroplex. And the 
"Finger and Thum-Pieces" are now a quality of which one no longer has to 
speak of quality but waste!

Injection-molded paddles of the cheapest kind, with razor-sharp moldings 
and threads clamping. Same with the buttons, the screws are too long, 
not back-turned, inserted at an angle and made of hard steel that is 
difficult to recut.

As you can probably imagine, I have serious scruples about selling these 
parts to anyone, because they do not meet my requirements in any way.


But I paid them and I have to get the money back somehow.
So be lenient because of the lousy goodness, but you will get exactly 
these parts if you order directly from the USA.


Fred, HB9JCP
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