[Milsurplus] BC-1335 Crystal

[J. Forster]

Disagree.

If you have ever looked at mil spares kits, designed to support radios or
whatever in the field, everything, from resistor to capacitors to fuses to
grommets to screws to whatever, are packaged like that.

They are designed to go anywhere, under any cdondition, be stored for
decades, and still be fresh and new when needed. There were companies that
made a business out of doing precisely this.

I very much covet spares kits for the radios I collect, and am delighted
with the ARB kit I got a few months ago, even though it has missing parts.
I would have loved to win a Chorehorse (generator) kit in Australia a
couple of months ago, but it went for over $400.

I'd bet, spares for anything non-disposable built today, get exactly the
same treatment.

YMMV,

-John

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> 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
>
> <snip>
>
>> 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
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