[Milsurplus] So what is a : CU-32 for an ART-13A

Mike Morrow kk5f at earthlink.net
Sat Nov 28 12:57:33 EST 2009


I wrote:

>> BTW, Mike's AN/ART-13A schematic referenced above is an outstanding copy
>> that is much better than the same circuit found in most original AN/ART-13A
>> manuals...Mike's copy must have come from an early original manual that had
>> not been corrupted.

Mike Hanz replied:   

>Appreciate the kind words, Mike.  Actually, I spent hours combining 
>several scans into one schematic and cleaning that schematic up to be 
>halfway readable, so perhaps the problems were there from the early 
>manual as well.

Mike, I apologize for assuming you had duplicated a decent original.  I can
appreciate the amount of work it took to correct.  I did the same using a
sheet scanner, paper cutter, drafting instruments, and tape some years ago.
It took hours to eventually scan and print out a halfway decent correct copy,
but one can tell its had such surgery, plus I couldn't make an electronic version.
Yours looks like it should have originally.  I even printed out a poster-sized
version and put it on my office wall, though no one else who sees it has any
idea what it is! 

It doesn't say much for USAF attention to technical detail that such a poor
schematic was tolerated for many years on the most important single page in
the entire maintenance manual!  I have examined several revisions of the
these AN/ART-13A manuals and never found an uncorrupted main schematic.

Mike / KK5F


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