[Milsurplus] polished bare metal panel R 390s on eBay

[Richard Solomon]

I always wondered what those guys did in the basement of Building 19 !!

73, Dick, W1KSZ

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 3:28 PM, J. Forster <jfor at quikus.com> wrote:
> If you just want something unusual (and sick) maybe you'd like "Pimp My
> Pet" too?
>
> Like sewing a cat's head onto a monkey body or something?
>
> -John
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>> The TV show Pimp My Ride comes to mind. Too bad there wasn't a wider
>> public interest in boat anchor restorations and mods. Can you imagine a TV
>> show along the lines of West Coast Choppers?
>>
>> Have there been any chrome plated 390 panels? Powder coated? Cammo? Wild
>> colors?
>>
>> How about a shaft encoder, some decoder driver chips and a front panel
>> mini nixie tube freq readout? Would there be room for that if you removed
>> the Veeder Root machinery and milled out a larger window?
>>
>> These car and bike guys are just more committed than we are. I see car and
>> motorcycle themed tatoos all the time but have yet to see an R 390 tatt or
>> even a Collins logo.
>>
>> It would be fun to have a computer graphics R 390 "skin" for an SDR. It's
>> far beyond my capability though.
>>
>>
>> Having swore off back breakers and wrist wreckers years ago, I find myself
>> once again in possession of a broken but restorable R 390A and a similarly
>> afflicted Viking II. Things seem to go in circles.
>>
>>
>> 73,
>> Mark
>> AF six IM
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