[Milsurplus] Moto FM in GI clothing

[Glen Zook]

Sounds like a railroad unit.  These usually ran from a 110 volt "motor/generator".  Often they were installed within the actual operating section of a diesel-electric engine where it got really hot.  My junior year at Georgia Tech (in Atlanta, Georgia) I worked for the Motorola Service Station and, being the "low man on the totem pole" (newest employee) I got the "honor" of working on these.  Frankly, during the summer, it was so hot inside those engines that the technician had to put on a pair of very heavy gloves and then hold his breath while pulling the various sections from the cabinet.  One could not stay inside more than a minute because of the intense heat.

Basically, you had a set of spare chassis and you just exchanged the strips.  By the time you got the units back to the shop they had cooled down enough to handle.  Occasionally, solder would actually have melted from some of the connections (60-40 solder goes plastic at 183 degrees C and melts at 188 degrees C).  That was hot!

I am not really interested in the unit.  But, my youngest daughter does live in Powder Springs and could probably get it if I were.

Glen, K9STH

Website:  http://k9sth.com


--- On Mon, 9/29/08, Marty Reynolds <cosmoline at aa4rm.ba-watch.org> wrote:

From: Marty Reynolds <cosmoline at aa4rm.ba-watch.org>

Have very heavy weatherproof snap-sealed OD box.  Evidently an FM set from the 50s.  Inside are three extractable units.  Two with familiar "tee-s", one with pull-bar.  115 p-s, a tx, and a rx.
 
Outside is mounted a Radio Control C847 box that has a speaker and a H-33 mic attached.
 
Weighs perhaps 110#.  Seems like gi-strength base stn.
 
Scrap yard will give 10cts/#.  So anyone with $11 & gasfor trip to Newnan, GA gets it 1st.
 
Have few pictures

I'll see it's held for a week