[Milsurplus] What price 5 MS connectors?

[WA5CAB@cs.com]

John, Bill, et al,

I can't quite figure out what ya'll are going on about.  When I follow the 
first link that John sent, I come up with a closed auction of a near mint 
RT-7/APN-1 including the dynamotor (always missing) and all five connectors (also 
always missing).  Sold for $125.95.  Fairly recently, you could still buy the 
connectors from Newark (in green only) for around $20.00 each (~$100.00).  Of 
course, after you had bought the connectors, disassembled them and had the 
aluminum parts heavy coat anodized, you'd still have to (a) know how to re-key 
them, (b) re-key them (depending upon which model of the radio you actually have, 
some of the plugs use alternate keying), and (c) find the radio with 
dynamotor.  Seems like $125.95 is about what the connectors would cost you through 
normal sources (or less) so the radio and dynamotor are free.  :-)

In a message dated 3/23/2004 5:09:56 PM Central Standard Time, aw288@osfn.org 
writes: 

>http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3085396975&category=4673
>
>http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2232876885&category=14050
>
>I am stunned.

A little high, but I wouldn't call it stunning. It seems to me that one of
those five pin MSs is a variation 2 type, and is hard to find, and if you
don't want to take apart a standard type and slice a new index slot...

Also, the Autopilot plug is not very common. 


Robert & Susan Downs - Houston
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