[Milsurplus] Re restoration

Hue Miller kargo_cult at msn.com
Fri Aug 26 23:42:35 EDT 2005


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Donzelli" <aw288 at osfn.org>

> I read in a wartime issue of Electronics that upon analyzing some captured
> sets, it was found that the Japanese had been buying up stocks of parts
> from US manufacturers that went under during the Depression.
> 
> William Donzelli

I don't doubt they bought up parts, but i have seen little or no presence of
such parts in WW2 equipment. Parts having an English language label and 
English-sounding parts manufacturer names do  NOT necessarily mean
the part is an import from the West. -Hue Miller


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