[Milsurplus] [ARC5] SCR-183 and -283 junction boxes

[David Stinson]

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From: "Kludge" <wh7hg.hi at gmail.com>



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>> From: Mike Hanz [mailto:aaf-radio-1 at aafradio.org]
>> Junction boxes were made with sometimes surprising materials and 
>> with a
>> variety of hardware.  Crawling through the Enola Gay, I've even ran 
>> into
>> a fair number of *plywood* junction boxes on this newest and most
>> complex type of aircraft made in 1945
(Michael)
>Aluminum may still have been considered a "strategic material"
>or it was a simple cost saving move...

I'm betting it was a "time and materials" thing.
Lots of aluminum going to patch-up damage in a hurry
means none to spare when something else would do.
Plywood was cheap, available and did the job.
Good for us, too, since now a nicely varnished
plywood junction box is as authentic as an
"unobtainium" TM-AE-172.

Either way, it leaves open a lot of possibilities
as does the plywood decking.  One other possibility is they could be
subcontracted out to about anyone since it doesn't take that much of a 
shop
to make them.

Dave S.