[Milsurplus] Aircraft graveyards as a source of radio parts ?

[Roger Basford]

Hi All,

I was following the ARC-2 thread and read Meir's (WF2U) interesting comment 
about recovering his from a aircraft graveyard and the hard to find rack.

I've been looking around the web for a possible source of a pair of Collins 
18S-4 racks (actually called a Type 350C-5 Shockmount) and was looking at a 
number of sites of US aircraft scrapyards. Are there still aircraft of the 
early 1950s era in these yards, I wonder? I'd guess that they all long been 
turned into Coke cans or have been hauled off to restore?  The only sizeable 
collection seems to be of the DC-4 and DC-6 era up in Alaska but if anyone 
knows of a possible source of the racks or just the mating female connectors 
I'd be interested to hear about it. There are two 18S-4s in my area looking 
for these plugs, the UK supply having dried up when a bunch of the radios 
were sold off a few years ago. I'd hate to start soldering wires to the pins 
on the rig backplane, mainly because as soon as I do that Murphy's Law will 
dictate that a supply of plugs will turn up!

73,

Roger Basford, G3VKM




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