[Milsurplus] August J.Link archive ???????

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Yep, at age 60 I finally had to admit that I was never going to live long 
enough to play with 10% of what I had accumulated.  I finally started being more 
receptive to emails and phone calls wanting to know whether I had so and so.  
I just hope that they don't reach 60 never having had time to play with them.  
But by that time, I probably won't be around to worry about it.  :-)

In a message dated 6/10/2004 10:00:45 PM Central Daylight Time, 
aw288 at osfn.org writes: 
> >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.
> 

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