[HBR] Socket for BC-453 IF transformers?

[Hopperdhh at aol.com]

Tim,
 
Here is how I think is the best way to use the BC-453 IF Transformers in a  
new project.  Open the cans by removing the 4 screws in from the sides of  the 
can to the base.  Run small (number 22 Teflon) wires into the  individual 
holes that the plugs went into but don't solder them to the  holes.  Solder the 
wires to the lugs inside the can.  Mount the cans  to the chassis by the 4 
vertical screws into the bottom of the cans.  This  way the cans could be returned 
to their original condition if it ever became  necessary.
 
Dan Hopper K9WEK
 
 
In a message dated 1/28/2006 7:26:38 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
shoppa_hbr at trailing-edge.com writes:

The IF  transformers in a BC-453 have 4 or 6 female pins on the bottom,
and they  mate with chassis-mount plugs that have 4 or 6 male pins.

Is there an  "obvious" way to find/fabricate new chassis mount plugs?

Off the top of  my head I'm thinking about a PC board with 4 or 6 keystone
(or maybe even  Molex) pins in a matching pattern.

The BC-453 chassis-mount plugs seem  to be very securely mounted to
the chassis (somehow integrated to lips  stamped in the sheet metal?
It doesn't look like there's a lot holding them  in but there must be
a lot?) The material is semi-transparent and may even  be mica? It's
a fabrication technique that I'm obviously not familiar with  and if
anyone cares to educate me, I'll gladly listen!

The symmetry  of the chassis sort of has me in a trance-like awe at
the moment. The  beauty has me convinced that it's some piece of
alien technology - the 3x3  grid of plugs/sockets, the terminal strips
with resistors in a square  rotated 45 degrees at the center, the
metal-can caps in a regular array  around the edges, it's a masterpiece!

And all those 3-48  screws!

How many command sets were made? Any history of the plants that  made them?

Tim.
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