[Milsurplus] "Oldtimer bitching"? Or Timely Warning? You Decide.

[KD7JYK DM09]

"If you want any money out of your collection of ANY old, special-interest 
technology, NOW IS THE TIME. 10 years from now will not work. Your kids will 
most likely load it into a dumpster. This or something close to this is a 
guaranteed outcome."

I've been helping a gal clear out the hangar of her late husband.  Tens of 
thousands of cubic feet of radio, electronics, electrical, machine shop 
misc., aircraft parts, plans, bit and pieces, tools going back nearly 200 
years.  All good stuff, all with an intent, all for a future project... 
Some being sold, some being given away, a lot being tossed.  Worse yet, I 
see a lot of the same stuff I have in there.  I can look at 99% of what he 
had and know exactly what his plans were with it.  I realize I'm in the same 
position.  He didn't have kids, had health problems that prevented him from 
doing anything in the past decade.  I have kids that aren't interested. 
Imagine growing up in a mix of every museum around the warehouse at the end 
of the Indiana Jones movie.  I have some items going back ~11,000 years.  I 
can tell you most everything about every item and how it relates to every 
other item and the evolution of knowledge and technology from them to now. 
"Boring", I am told.

Knowing full well what becomes of this stuff...

I'm sorting and tossing some things.  I'll hold out for someone down the 
road to show an interest and educate and provide.  If nothing else, it'll be 
well organized and easier to dispose of, rather than the decades of layers 
I'm dealing with in the hangar now.

Kurt