[Milsurplus] War Surplus Radio Store recreated?

Thu Jun 14 22:51:36 EDT 2012

> Eli used to get a lot of stuff from Lincoln Lab, in the mid to late
> 50's it was the place to go.

Later, it all went to Taunton, the MA State Surplus Agency, or DRMO at Ft.
Devens. I got a few very nice things at DRMO.

> Then there was the guy in Lexington who started getting stuff from LL.
> His back yard was a disaster, but a gold mine. The town finally shut him
> down.

I know the place. He had an SCR-584 I think. Forrest Mims, maybe.

> There was a guy in Waltham who got a lot of stuff from Digital Equipment,
> it was a nice source of big 12 vdc supplies.

DEC insisted on a scrap warranty. He only sold scrap metal...  not even
intact racks or motors. They were all cut up. Useless. IMO.

-John

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>
> 73, Dick, W1KSZ
>
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 7:29 PM, J. Forster <jfor at quikus.com> wrote:
>> I do. Meshna's was a mess after the floor collapsed. Peter Boniface of
>> B&F
>> , later BnF, still comes to the MIT Fleas. I'll see him Sunday.
>>
>> Did you ever deal with old man Eli Heffron...  not the brothers. Or R&D
>> Sales on Mass Ave?
>>
>> -John
>>
>> ===============
>>
>>
>>> Meshna's was my favorite Saturday hangout, lot's of great stuff and the
>>> back room had loads of goodies not in the Catalog.
>>>
>>> I visited his place shortly after he had died and it was pretty much
>>> cleaned out. What was left was free for the taking.
>>>
>>> Now for the real Olde Farte Test ... who remembers Electro-Sales on a
>>> side street off Atlantic Ave. in Boston ??
>>>
>>> 73, Dick, W1KSZ
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 6:05 PM, J. Forster <jfor at quikus.com> wrote:
>>>> Or Meshna
>>>>
>>>> -John
>>>>
>>>> ==========
>>>>
>>>>> I often wonder what became of Electro-Craft that was located on
>>>>> Dorchester Ave.,
>>>>> Near Grafton St., in the Dorchester section of Boston. Last time I
>>>>> was
>>>>> by there,
>>>>> the building was still there, but the sign was gone.
>>>>> This place had floor to ceiling Surplus Gear, including NIB ARC-5
>>>>> gear. It would
>>>>> have been quite a chore to clean out that place.
>>>>>
>>>>> 73, Dick, W1KSZ
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 3:21 PM, J. Forster <jfor at quikus.com> wrote:
>>>>>> There is a guy in Italy that bought a lot of WW II radio parts and
>>>>>> has
>>>>>> been selling them off slowly. He is a major source of WS 19 and
>>>>>> BC-xx
>>>>>> bits. I think the stuff is NATO marked. It probably sat in a
>>>>>> warehouse
>>>>>> in
>>>>>> Italy for decades.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -John
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ===========================
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I wonder if the military has any WWII radios stored away in some
>>>>>>> long-forgotten warehouses. I remember reading about a fellow who
>>>>>>> was
>>>>>>> drafted in 1941 was assigned to clean out a warehouse on the base
>>>>>>> (Fort
>>>>>>> Meade?). In some forgotten storage area, he found boxes of Civil
>>>>>>> War
>>>>>>> muskets in their original shipping containers. Fifty years after
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> fact,
>>>>>>> this guy was still PO'd that the officers took all the muskets and
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> enlisted men got nothing.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>                                    Joe Connor
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>________________________________
>>>>>>>>From: Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu>
>>>>>>>>To: "Thekan, Paul" <Paul.Thekan at cpii.com>;
>>>>>>>> "'milsurplus at mailman.qth.net'"
>>>>>>>> <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
>>>>>>>>Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 5:04 PM
>>>>>>>>Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] War Surplus Radio Store recreated?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>You have not been to Fair Radio? Although I was not around in the
>>>>>>>> "golden
>>>>>>>> Years" of war surplus, assuming that to be in the 47 to 57 time
>>>>>>>> frame
>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>> showroom and back warehouse at Fair Radio has to be similar to
>>>>>>>> what
>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>> alleged golden age was. Looking at places like Murphy's would say
>>>>>>>> that's
>>>>>>>> a close second but Murphy appears to specialize in newer equipment
>>>>>>>> where
>>>>>>>> Fair Radio is mostly if not all vacuum tube base equipment. I put
>>>>>>>> several
>>>>>>>> pictures of Fair Radios showroom and warehouse on my Dayton 2012
>>>>>>>> page
>>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>>> cannot imagine that there was or is any grater collection of
>>>>>>>> military
>>>>>>>> electronics for sale from the forties thru early sixties. Maybe
>>>>>>>> there
>>>>>>>> was
>>>>>>>> these special places where BC-610, BC-348 and ARC-5 radios were in
>>>>>>>> huge
>>>>>>>> piles for low prices but never in my lifetime. Back in the late
>>>>>>>> seventies
>>>>>>>> I got into this stuff and you had a couple companies like Fair and
>>>>>>>> some
>>>>>>>> radio surplus stores in New York  and Philadelphia but those
>>>>>>>> places
>>>>>>>> had
>>>>>>>> almost nothing in
>>>>>>>  terms of military surplu
>>>>>>>>s and were way more expensive then Hamfest.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>RF
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>>>>>From: milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net
>>>>>>>> [mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Thekan,
>>>>>>>> Paul
>>>>>>>>Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 2:18 PM
>>>>>>>>To: 'milsurplus at mailman.qth.net'
>>>>>>>>Subject: [Milsurplus] War Surplus Radio Store recreated?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Hello all
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>  Does anyone know of a 'recreated' War Surplus Radio store display
>>>>>>>> anywhere here in the states? I know there are still a few surplus
>>>>>>>> radio/electronic store survivors out there but I'm talking about
>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>> stores some here remember from the post war years into the late
>>>>>>>> 60's,
>>>>>>>> filled with the older gear and parts , many still NIB.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>There was a recreated War Surplus store display done sometime back
>>>>>>>> in
>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>> 90's as I remember a friend showing me an article in the
>>>>>>>> Smithsonian
>>>>>>>> magazine where this was done...maybe it was at the Smithsonian. It
>>>>>>>> showed
>>>>>>>> the general surplus stuff available but not specific to the radio/
>>>>>>>> electronics that was surplus  back then.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Anyway there are recreated old gas stations , general stores and so
>>>>>>>> forth
>>>>>>>> out there. I long to gaze again at the piles of  the old gear and
>>>>>>>> parts...and oh that wonderful smell again. And then to find , in
>>>>>>>> my
>>>>>>>> experience here in SF, a somewhat balding , cigar chomping ,
>>>>>>>> sometime
>>>>>>>> curmudgeonly proprietor to man the counter.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Tnx
>>>>>>>>Paul
>>>>>>>>N6FEG
>>>>>>>>
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