[Milsurplus] TCS data plates

David Stinson arc5 at ix.netcom.com
Fri Feb 18 16:20:32 EST 2005



Ray Fantini wrote:
> Perhaps this is only my lack of experience , myself only have owned
> three or four and having seen a couple dozen but the Collins TCS have
> painted on labels for the controls or at least the ones I have and all
> the others have raised metal lettering on the panel, maybe the early
> ones had raised lettering ( making them easy to paint) but the TCS-12 by
> Collins is just painted on. who would have thought! brand X being better
> then the big C.

Not only that; some of the TCS-12 sets were Collins branded, but
actually built by subcontractors.  There was a "COL-" TCS 12
on the 'bay awhile ago that was built by Magnavox.

73 Dave S.


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