[Milsurplus] Spares boxes

[Hue Miller]

Jack, for Navy (WW2 era) i have seen it both ways: some equipments

had their own individual spares complement in cases. I have also read in 

some manual, and i sure wish i could remember which, for example, that 

spares were supplied in some ratio to the population, say one to five,

for example. ( Maybe this was in contract information either in a manual

or in a Navy catalog. )  If i come across the example again, i will quote it here. 

I would bet  money no carrier aircraft radios came with spares kits for 

every plane.

It would seem to me the rational thing, also, would be to stock many 

tubes, but you are not likely to ever need 100% redundancy on EVERY

single part in every radio. The ships were not out that long anyway, 

not like whalers in an earlier era or space probes.

One thing that impresses me: these events were not that long ago, yet

it seems very difficult indeed to recover information on some aspects

of them.   -Hue