[Milsurplus] BC-223A Restoration

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>From Pete, the moderator of the ham-history list. This is too good to
NOT share it with you guys.

73,

Mark W1EOF

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I would like to share the results of my recent radio restoration project
that is nearing completion. Several years ago, I bought an old World War
2 US military radio transmitter (BC-223-A) on eBay.  After finally
getting it to oscillate and return to the air, the next goal was to give
it a complete body make-over. This second part of the restoration proved
to be quite a bit more formidable than any of the electrical work that I
did.

The chassis restoration project included drilling out several rusted and
frozen screws, re-tapping new threads and completely replacing all of the
original slotted pan-head screws. Then, I selectively nickel plated
several exposed metal surfaces to bring them back to their original
shine, followed by repainting the entire chassis with a new coat of black
wrinkle paint. Finally, new lettering was reapplied to the chassis. The
project was a delight, and I am very pleased that I was able to restore
an early WW2 radio back to its (nearly) original factory condition.  It
isn't often that someone gets the chance to preserve a piece of radio
history...

You can see the before and after at: http://home.comcast.net/~n8pb/bc223/

...Pete, N8PB
peter at buehner.net
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