[Milsurplus] [ARC5] Special phone jack needed for a friends Stinson L-5
Mike Morrow
kk5f at earthlink.net
Wed Aug 5 00:09:26 EDT 2015
>Here is a link to the photo that I just reloaded. Maybe something was messed
>up on the first one:
>
>http://www.twinbeech.com/images/temp/L-5radio7272015.jpg
>
>The red arrow points to a 90 degree phone plug that has a standard 1/4 inch
>wide, two conductor sleeve and tip which goes in standard phone jack in the
>front of the BC-1206.
>
>I think they used this plug because if it was a straight plug the pilot
>could break it, bend it or otherwise hurt himself on it as it is close to
>his head. That's my guess anyway. You can see the upper one in the AVT is
>straight as it is higher and out of the way. They would have used a
>commercial 90 degree phone jack available at the time (around 1943).
>
>This L-5 is his own personal project that he has owned for 10 years and has
>been restoring for the last 7. He is one of those guys with an eye for
>detail so finding just any 90 degree phone plug isn't what he wants to do.
>He would like to find the same exact kind that is pictured so he can be
>happy and proud that it is correct. This is one of the last details he needs
>to complete the radio portion of this restoration.
>
>It's a worthy project.
Small points that have nothing to do with Plug-Quest...but the other receiver is a RCA AVR-20-A1 made by Continental Radio. The RCA AVT-112 is not shown in any yet posted photo, but definitely should be somewhere near. The other pictured receiver (for which a plug is sought) is DEFINITELY NOT A BC-1206-* OF ANY TYPE! Those can NOT operate on 14 vdc. The pictured R-76/ARR-13 can. The R-76/ARR-13 beavon band, the AVR-20-A1, and the
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