[Milsurplus] ARB

[J. Forster]

I have been trying to find a really clean (near NOS), unmolested, ARB and
mount for years.

Seeing one pointlessly gutted is not an axchievement, no matter how well
done, in my view.

-John

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> Hi Dave,
>
>     There is certainly room at the table for those who  want to restore
> the
> artifacts of WWII and other incarnations of military  materiel.  I support
> both sides of the table on this count.  But  please do not discount the
> hams
> who used this stuff as a means to an end when  the marketplace was
> literally overflowing with this gear.  To discount that  history is
> certainly not in
> keeping with the spirit of the technology past and  the clever use of the
> gear in it's afterlife.  I think it was far better to  have the hams
> gather
> up this stuff in years following WWII than to have it  shredded into
> material
> for beer cans and aluminum siding.  And that is  context from which I
> refer
> to as the Ham's contribution to the preservation of  the equipment.
>
>     And to have a list member dismiss the  adaptations that the hams made
> of this equipment is somewhat short sighted and  comes off as being rather
> smug at best.   I can't argue that a lot of  the gear that was produced
> for
> the war effort  was clever, however, I can  also assert that some of the
> stuff
> was pure junk and the product of getting war  materiel out the door as
> quickly as possible to take the battle to the axis  powers.  Much of the
> equipment that went into this heroic effort was  certainly dated and
> lacked the
> engineering and procurement oversight we see  in equipment that came to
> the
> fore in the late 40s.
>
>     But let's not get another tempest in a teapot going  on this topic as
> it's been raked over the coals many times with neither side  willing to
> give
> an inch.  However, lets all try to be less pompous about  the topic and
> give
> to those hams who were and remain the real preservers of the  cited
> equipment's history be it by design or simple luck.  I've never  heard a
> ham fault
> those who want to preserve these artifacts as military  history, but I do
> bristle when I read drivel about how hams are the "Destroyers  of Hallowed
> Equipment."
>
>     73
>
>     Bob, KE6F
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