[Milsurplus] Japanese Boatanchors

[Wammes Witkop]

Hi Breck and others...

Akihabara is still like that. Very specilized little shops, amongst the 
bigger ones found also nowadays. Even have a picture somewhere of 
display of different tube mounts for sale - taken last January!

Wammes Witkop

b. smith wrote:
> Nick mentioned  the "Japanese "Delica" boatanchors including a
> Hallicrafters S-38 look-alike (which also came in kit form) and some 1960's
> . . .
> 
> What a shock it was on one of my frequent trips to visit Akihabara and see
> the copy of the S-38, little did I know that was just the beginning of the
> slow   attack on  our electronics industry. But I did enjoy Akihabara in
> those days, if you needed a resistor you went to the resistor shop, if you
> needed a knob you went to a knob shop, with a shopping list from the
> Handbook you could fill your A-3 bag with all the parts  in one afternoon
> then back to Tachakawa and APN-9s and ART-13s and lots of ocean on the way
> back to the land of milk and honey.
> 
> breck k4che
> 
> 
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