[Milsurplus] SCR-543

Sat, 31 May 2003 18:51:13 EDT

Actually, it would be easier to make the modified connectors the same way 
that Amphenol did.  Get the standard connectors, salvage some of the larger 
contacts from another AN connector that uses them, go to your handy milling machine 
or good quality drill press, and modify the appropriate holes in the two 
inserts so that you can install the larger contacts.

Easier than that would be to order the modified connectors (looks like I have 
two left, which is how I happen to know how they were made).

Simplest would be to just order the cable.  :-)  I've had a good stock of 
them since the mid 90's and have mentioned them a few times on Boatanchors and 
Milsurplus.  Shipped one earlier this month in fact.  The ones I have are marked 
CD-515-B but they will work with any model BC-669 and PE-110, except that as 
they (and the -A and -C) have right angle connectors on both ends, they can't 
be physically connected if the power supply and radio are in the -D model 
chests.  Price is $40.00 plus shipping.  Condition is NOSB. 

On a somewhat related subject, I have an empty steel spare parts box marked 
for the PE-108-E generator.  The contents went to another collector who put 
them into the empty PE-108-D spares box that he already had.  And I have the 
manuals on the A....C and the D, the former of which I'm about to reprint for 
another collector.  Have a few of the other connectors used with the set but no m
ore cables.  And have some of the wooden storage boxes for the RM-21-A...C.  
And a BC-669-A.  I think that's all that I have left for the SCR-543.

In a message dated 5/31/2003 5:22:49 PM Central Daylight Time, 
[email protected] writes: 
> I've been wanting to put one of these sets together, and one problem is
> that I'm missing the cable that goes between the power supply and the
> BC-669.  And the reason that is a problem is that it uses a non-standard
> AN connector, one with some different sized pins than the standard.
> I haven't decided whether to replace the connectors with standard ones
> or to keep trying to find a cable or the correct connectors.

Robert & Susan Downs
Houston
<[email protected]>

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