[Milsurplus] 18M

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

Hue,

I agree about the mods.  They don't really look like anything Collins would 
have done.

The dataplate on top of the cabinet smacks of something a postwar civilian 
collector or small museum might have made.  Especially if he or they weren't 
vets.  It just has an immature gee-whiz ring to it.  Neither the Navy nor, 
I'm sure, Collins Radio would have ever put a plate worded like that onto 
anything they bought or built.

The input voltages listed on the plate are not those used in the 18M.  They 
are the DC primary or input voltages of the four types of power supplies 
available for the TCH.

The manual that I have is Navy, but an un-numbered preliminary.  Like those 
thin preliminary manuals done for the TCS-12, 13 and 14.  Front cover and 
title page are virtually identical except for nomenclature and date.

In a message dated 11/18/2011 21:24:51 PM Central Standard Time, 
kargo_cult at msn.com writes: 
> The 18M on Epay
> 
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140643574625&
> ssPageName=ADME:B:EOIBSA:US:1123
> 
> The seller's statement that the 2 openings added upper right corner:
> Does anyone believe this has anything to do with the 18M-5 suffix. I kinda 
> 
> don't.
> How about the mods. Even if it does "look 1940s" as seller says, the 
> inside 
> view didn't particularly impress
> me as Collins executed. Looks more hammy, to me.
> What about the plate saying for "Radio amateurs and experimenters". Did 
> this 
> come from a Collins museum?
> I mean, a museum belonging to Collins. It occurred to me that maybe some 
> ham 
> with a "Collins collection" added
> that nameplate, but it's hard to imagine someone being a Collins collector 
> 
> and being that dumb. The mulit - voltage
> statement on that plate sounds like a general statement for advertising 
> purpose or historical display purpose more
> like from the manufacturer. What say you?
> -Hue 

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