[Milsurplus] Crated Aircraft - painted aircraft ID on radios

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A new slant on collecting... find some thing that had been Enola Gay flown  
or?
Ed#  _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org) 
 
 
In a message dated 5/12/2017 7:41:55 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
milsurplus at mailman.qth.net writes:

I was re-reading some of the posts about why specific aircraft numbers  
were painted on certain radio gear, and read the speculations as to why this  
might be.
I have a surmise: The crew chief, when turning in his gear for routine  
maintenance or repair, wanted to be sure he got his unit back. He didn't want  
someone elses sour tuner, or cranky receiver, intermittent transmitter, etc. 
 If he had a piece of gear that was issued to the aircraft, and worked well 
 when operating, he wanted it back when repaired, rather than get someone  
else's problem child issued to him. A painted number on the case would help  
prevent that.  Having had a lot of surplus stuff over the years, I have  
found manufacturing defects like cold solder joints (found one recently in a  
pristine ARC-5 rx), etc that would make for intermittent gear, seems 
repaired  but craps out again in the field, to be returned to depot for repair,  
etc.  Maybe just marking their territory, like dogs.
YMMV
73
Jeff  Kruth


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