[Milsurplus] Managing Your Collection, WAS Item 300447369243

[Michael]

My daughter is the sum total of my family.  I have no other heirs nor anyone
else to whom I could reasonably leave my estate.  As a result, I know
anything I leave behind will likely become landfill or worse.  The idea,
then, is to leave behind as little as possible and have a definite plan for
what remains that has any value.

Aside from one each ARA/ATA & GF/RU system plus a few units to play with and
parts for other projects, all of the A.R.C. products, military and civilian,
and related equipment will become available after the photographs for the
book are taken.  Once I have gleaned all of the information I'll need from
them, the manuals on the equipment will become available as well.  After
that will come a progressive unloading of equipment and manuals & books.  I
know that without special handling (mostly removing power supplies or other
sections to ship separately), some of it will never go back to the mainland
due to weight.  Even with separating them, only a rare few pieces will make
it back and I'll probably have to sell or give it away here.  Aside from the
aforementioned A.R.C. bitzenpieces, all that should be left is something
like the HW-101 or TR-4 and the Standard 2m FM rig.  All of the proceeds go
to Noelle until she passes (It's exceptionally unlikely I'll go before she
does so selling what I can before she does would be a good thing.) or the MS
Society.  

The shop equipment is a whole 'nother problem.  When I get to the point I
can no longer use it, I think I know somewhere I can place it for sale with
the proceeds going as above.  While finding homes for the Taig and the
Unimat won't be all that difficult, the watchmaker's lathes and related
tools will be problematic due to limited appeal.  (It should be interesting
trying to move the baby electric welder!)  The worst of the lot will be the
5.5mm lathe since it was hand made (probably by a student at a watch making
school) and not a production piece.  On the other hand, the Lorch 6mm lathe
comes with the original wooden box and most of the original accessories.  (I
need to do some cleaning & repair work on the box but that's a minor
detail.)  

The watch repair hand tools will go to the same place as the lathes while
the other hand tools plus things like the cordless circular saw & cordless
drill will be left behind for whomever.  They're inconsequential and I don't
care about their fate.  

The computer[s]?  I haven't a clue.  Yet.

If it all goes right, my estate won't be worth anything when I die.  Of
course this doesn't take Murphy into account ... :-)

Best regards,
 
Michael, WH7HG BL01xh
http://www.nationalmssociety.org/chapters/NTH/index.aspx 
http://wh7hg.blogspot.com/ 
http://kludges-other-blog.blogspot.com 
Hiki Nô!