[Milsurplus] BC-1335 Crystal

[mstangelo at comcast.net]

Hue,

I believe it had more to do with the state of the technology.
 
By the Second World War vacuum tube technology was a mature technology. The manufacturers could product reliable vacuum tubes in quantity so special shipping was not required. Crystal technology was still in it's infancy. Reliability was not that good and the failure mechanisms were not well understood. To be on the safe side I assume that they would ship them in dehydration packs.

Mike N2MS

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> Which also makes me think, a nation that could
> dehydration pack individual crystals, must have
> had an industrial plant in pretty good shape. Which
> also made me think of how the Wehrmacht supplied
> their common tubes: in boxes of 50, each tube just one
> slot in the overall cardboard box. Like ammo.
> -Hue Miller