[Milsurplus] Radio Research

[J. Forster]

Peter Gottlieb wrote:

> Since you have bought from so many dealers perhaps you will know about a
> place I once visited in South Boston.  I remember going along with someone
> to visit perhaps 15-20 years ago when I lived up there and made a note to
> return but never did.
>
> It was a non-descript warehouse from the outside and inside it was packed to
> the high ceiling with all sorts of mil equipment, mostly radar and high
> power stuff IIRC.

It was called Electro Craft owned by Jack Greenberg. He mainly sold tubes at
high prices. The price was high even if it had sat gathering dust for decades.
He was always full of stories how he had sold just such a tube to XXX company
for $5000 or something like that. Virtually impossible to do business with, like
RRL. His son or son-in-law took the business over and it eventually disappeared
AFAIK.

> He had a lot of parts like HV capacitors (that was what
> my friend was after) and the prices were a bit on the high side but not
> crazy and he would negotiate.  I remember he had a rather hazardous test
> bench set up running stuff at 10's of kilovolts right in the open so at
> least at the time he was not set up to be a retail operation in any way.  Do
> you have any idea who this is, and if he is still there?
>
> Peter
>
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