[Milsurplus] RA-1B power connector name and source needed

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

In a message dated 12/21/2007 10:27:12 AM Central Standard Time, 
kk5f at earthlink.net writes: 
> >Actually, the 6-pin male connector on the front of the RA-1 is SO-45.
> >PL-106 is a mating female cable connector.
> 
> My original posting intended that the connector was a six-pin connection, 
> without stating which side of the connection had the pins or which side 
> accomodated the pins.

I should have worded that differently

> 
> >However, I don't have a manual on any model of the RA-1...
> 
> I have an original, dated 1938, with a July 1944 service bulletin in it.  A 
> similar good pdf copy is at BAMA.
> 
> >but would be inclined to bet at least a small amount that it 
> >calls for something other than a PL-106.
> 
> Thw manual does not give information about the cable plugs except a Bendix 
> part number B7545-1 ("six-prong, 90 degree, female, 0.655 wire hole").

If the Navy or the AAF had an application where they used the 6-pin insert in 
a right angle backshell (and assigned a two, three or five digit number to 
it), I've not come across the numbers.  The only 1-1/8D right angle I see in the 
database is the PL-Q77 used with SCR-183/283 (same 3-contact plus guide pin 
hole insert as AC plug for LM).  Since the 134 number isn't technically correct 
for the RA-1, if you could find a PL-Q77 you could swap inserts and the 
result would look like the photo.  But I only have two of them left.  Bill Perry 
might have more.

> 
> >PL-106 will work but is a long heavy connector with integral steel 
> >cable clamp...
> 
> A PL-106 was on my RA-1J when I got it, but no doubt the PL-134 you mention 
> would actually be better, and better match the pictures in the manual.

Someone with an early RM-21 or doing an SCR-194 or 195 might want it.  I have 
a couple left and the rest of what I once had all went to those sets or to 
the components thereof.

> 
> >I have more than a dozen of the 134's.  $15.00 each.
> 
> Please hold one of those PL-134 connectors for me.
> 

OK.

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