[Milsurplus] TBX Vibrator Supply

[WF2U]

Robert,

In a way I agree with you - but I didn't exactly pay nothing for the TBX-8.
I got it on eBay a few years ago for about what the vibrator power supply is
up to now.
I'm rationalizing about this because I'm not in the position now to really
go with that auction where it's heading...
I have a few irons (so to speak) in the fire, like shipping a 1950's British
Navy transmitter with the power supply to the US, to go with the matching
receiver I already have. I just can't afford that TBX power supply now...

I'd have probably gone all the way with the auction if I could afford it but
at least all the bidders now have less competition, as I'm out...

73, Meir WF2U
Landrum, SC


> -----Original Message-----
> From: milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net]On Behalf Of WA5CAB at cs.com
> Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2005 12:03 AM
> To: wf2u at starband.net; milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] TBX Vibrator Supply
>
>
> I'm sorry, Meir, but I have never understood that rationale.
> Fifteen years
> ago I had a guy come up to me at a local hamfest all in a dither
> because he had
> heard from someone else there that I had available all of the seven
> connectors that are used with a complete AN/ART-13.  I quoted him
> prices.  He looked me
> squarely in the eye and stated that the connectors could not be
> worth more
> than the transmitter.  And turned and walked off.  I later
> learned that he had
> paid $20.00 for the transmitter to some worthless rice burner addict.
>
> My point is that just because you got part of a set for next to nothing
> doesn't mean that anyone else has to give you the rest of it for
> nothing.  I gave
> maybe $200 for my first complete SCR-284-A, most of which was
> stolen in 2000.
> I've got about $1000 ($1082.144 to be exact) into it's
> replacement and would
> quickly give 5% or maybe more of that for a US made GY-11 or
> P-19, the only
> pieces I have been unable to find replacements for after more
> than five years of
> looking.  Despite the fact that I probably gave no more than $5
> each for the
> stolen ones many years ago.
>
> Anyway, the bottom line is that what you gave for one part of a
> radio set has
> no bearing on what some other part of it is worth or might cost.
>
> In a message dated 12/10/2005 8:43:36 PM Central Standard Time,
> wf2u at starband.net writes:
> > A much as I would love to get that power supply, I'm not going to bid. I
> > don't think I want to pay more for the supply than what I paid
> for my TBX-8
> > with the hand crank genny, antenna, antenna base and cables.
> >
> > 73, Meir WF2U
> > Landrum, SC
> >
> >
> >
> > >-----Original Message-----
> > >From: milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> > >[mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net]On Behalf Of w8au at sssnet.com
> > >Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2005 8:57 PM
> > >To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
> > >Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] TBX Vibrator Supply
> > >
> > >
> > >At 07:19 PM 12/10/05, WA5CAB at cs.com wrote:
> > >>Well, you know that you are in good (or bad depending upon how
> > >you look at
> > >>it) company when you recognize 80% of the people bidding
> against you! :-)
> > >
> > >Yep, recognized a lot of folks except for the high bidder.  Gosh,
> > >the price
> > >went as high as a good TBX would have gone.
> > >
> > >Bad thing about last moment bids, ya never know how many of
> your friends
> > >you're bidding against.  Doesn't allow you to feel guilty until its all
> > >over...  :-)
>
> 73
> Robert Downs - Houston
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