[Milsurplus] TBX-4 photos available.

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Ray,

As a general rule, radio manufacturers didn't make meters, dynamotors, wire 
and cable or connectors.  One of the WW-II meter manufacturers made black face 
meters.  The rest made white face ones.  The black face meters show up on one 
or two orders of a lot of the common (to us) Navy sets (TCS, AN/ART-13, etc.). 
 As far as I can see, the only significance of black face meters on the radio 
of the TBX-4 is that the black-face maker just happened to get that contract.

The idea that the TBX-8 (and TBY-8) was never deployed got started several 
years ago as a question.  Later some of the questioners started stating it as a 
fact.  But there's never been any proof brought forward that this was the 
case.  Only the fact that more of the newest models show up in good condition than 
of the older models.  But this is true of everything built during the war.  
The earliest TBX-8 manual that I have is dated 22 April 1944, almost a year and 
a half before VJ-Day.  So I don't believe it.  Production of war materials 
was still running at full steam through all of 1944, and carried over into 1945 
before any significant number of contracts began to be canceled due to the end 
of the war being in sight.  

In a message dated 10/26/2005 8:06:05 AM Central Daylight Time, 
RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu writes: 
> Was great to see the whole set, the TBX-6 that I had did not have the
> huge transit case. was wondering why the two meters on the four had
> black faces? thought that did not happen until the eight, also is it a
> agreed fact that the TBX-8 was never deployed in the second world war?
> Ray Fantini KA3EKH

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