[Milsurplus] One more Eb*y find

William Donzelli aw288 at osfn.org
Sun Oct 24 23:57:47 EDT 2004


> A "code wheel" for the day was placed on the end of the shaft in 
> dynamotor to allow change of the unit's ID.  The story goes before these 
> units got to the field they were concealed because of concerns about the 
> poor security of the system.  Each unit was built on a special magnesium 
> chassis and had several small electrically controlled destruct charges 
> installed.

One of these days I am going to see if I can light an junker ABA-1 on
fire, just for fun. I think some of the parts are magnesium - they seem
too light for aluminum.

William Donzelli
aw288 at osfn.org



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