[Milsurplus] August J.Link archive ???????
William Donzelli
aw288 at osfn.org
Thu Jun 10 23:00:21 EDT 2004
> The reason that the quality of the items he's selling is pretty uniformly
> high is that his collecting practice was almost always different from the way
> most of us approach it. I and probably a lot of the rest of you will, after
> deciding we are interested in a set (or sometimes after stumbling across the first
> piece of it), pick up the first piece that shows up above whatever our
> personal cull level is, and over time "trade up" in condition. Sometimes keeping
> the next best one for parts, etc., and sometimes selling it to someone else who
> started later. August mostly only bought NOS or NOSB items.
I suppose I was in that category, buying every bit of military stuff I
could find, trading up as I went, but like many, I have a pile of "less
than great" radios that never were traded up (curently looking at a
TBX-2 unit that is in that bunch). I think his approach was a
wise one. Lets face it - we all have 100 times more projects than we could
ever manage.
Three cheers for August, by the way.
William Donzelli
aw288 at osfn.org
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