[Milsurplus] FW: BC-348 mods

[David Stinson]

Respectfully,
Please reconsider.  There are worlds of BC-348s already drilled and 
chainsawed
one can use to tinker and experiment.  Moreover; if your BC-348 is truely
unmodfied "mint," it will sell on the open market for hundreds of dollars.
Drill one hole and it's a $30 "parter."

Hacking an historic relic to "improve performance," almost never results in
a set one cares about for long- especially those mods one sees
in the 40s and 50s ham magazines, which were usually
poorly designed and implemented.
One can "modify" a Model-T Ford from bumper to bumper,
and it will never be a Porsche.  It can be temporary entertainment,
but the sports cars that were built to be sports cars will always and 
forever
run rings around it.  The modded thing becomes a nothing; once the
entertainment wears off, it gets a cloth cover and a corner of the garage
until the estate sale, or it goes to the dump.
Better it go to someone who loves Model-Ts for being what they are.
And many of us are working on "improvements" that do
no real harm to the historic value of  military sets,
rather than the chainsawings of the 50s.

I'd bet many of us could supply two or three nice "modded" sets,
fit for lots of tinkering, in exchange for a clean, complete
and unmodded 348.  If I had some left, I certainly would.


GL OM ES 73 DE Dave AB5S