[Milsurplus] Moto FM in GI clothing

[Marty Reynolds]

Glen u wrote

> 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

Well I'm a ramblin' wreck too.  Class 1970 Nuc Engr

Great story about use in rr diesels

Only once did I do a cab ride in Canada.  Cooler there & it was
in a 'streamliner' on it's last legs... a GM "E unit."

Was so enthralled with the 200 mi.s spent up there I never looked
for a radio

BUT

Very interesting that gummint maybe just boosted the entire Moto
package that for it's time was such a tough & modular package.
M Tauson came in there

& that leads to earlier gummint 'modularity/voltage-source' efforts

   - RT70 w. AM65 that used plug-in 6, 12, 24v vibrapacke

   - SCR 500 with 12V or 24V dyno sets... & neat how there was a
     BC604 'view window' to see which dyno was there

   - 12 & 24v BC191 & BC 224 vs BC375 & BC348

   - arc5 28v q5-er vs arc5X 12v equiv. (a stretch)

   - 12 or 24v ARC-x / arc-4s

   - others?

    Marty