[Milsurplus] [Glowbugs] Good as gold?

[Hue Miller]

There is one fellow in Norway making the walkie talkie batt boxes. He does an amazing job; the boxes

look like they just came from the factory in 1945. Even acceptance stamps on them. BUT- priced to 

match.
There are more of the Torn.E.b. receivers around and i don't understand why someone hasn't done

the battery boxes, i would think it's a simpler project than the walkie talkie box.  There is a fellow

doing total resin cast Wehrmacht backpack radios for reenactors and i suggested to him to do the

Torn. batt box. I don't know why not; maybe the resin cast is not stong enough to bear the radio's

weight? Just a guess. The Germans for ground radios had to go to an inferior pot metal starting 

1943 and those pot metal radios are REALLY heavy. As well as the metal not lasting very well. 

The walkie talkie could use dry batts. The Torn. receiver wants 2 volts and 90 volts. There was a

vibrator supply in the batt box that ran off a nicad 2 volt batt. I think the nonworking batts themselves

go for $150 or so.

It occurred to me even if you bought a resin cast backpack radio, you still have to pay $$$$ for the

associated accessory parts, so you're still up a tree.

Maybe better to be happy with a BC-312 and a Knight T-50. More bang for the buck, that's for sure.

-Hue 
 



Subject: Re: [Glowbugs] Good as gold?
From: bcarling at cfl.rr.com
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 14:36:04 -0400
CC: tetrode at googlegroups.com; armyradios at yahoogroups.com; milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
To: kargo_cult at msn.com


It seems like someone could make good money supplying repro battery boxes.


Where do you buy batteries though?

Bry Carling 
http://af4k.com