[Milsurplus] Folding table for outdoor swapmeets ? (Glenn Little WB4UIV)
Carl Reinemann
creinemann at gmail.com
Sun Aug 12 10:38:03 EDT 2018
I have used the military litter stands, very light and fold up very small,
with a sheet of 3/4 plywood with two reinforcing strips, holds a few
hundred pounds.
example https://www.ebay.com/i/332609320222?chn=ps
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> 1. Re: Folding table for outdoor swapmeets ? (Glenn Little WB4UIV)
> 2. Any News On BAMA? (Joe Connor)
> 3. Re: Military Radios - LA County Estate - auction or scrap?
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> Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2018 20:17:38 -0400
> From: Glenn Little WB4UIV <glennmaillist at bellsouth.net>
> To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Folding table for outdoor swapmeets ?
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> They sell them at Walmart in my area.
>
> 73
> Glenn
> WB4UIV
>
> On 8/11/2018 5:49 PM, Hubert Miller wrote:
> >
> > I will be at the Seattle PSARA meet this year with a huge number of
> > radio magazines and some interesting junque besides.
> >
> > I have too much to simply display in the back of my van and I thought
> > I'd put down a small tarp and the stuff on top of it.
> >
> > But I realized if I'm going to be doing this for the next years as I
> > downsize radically, I should get some kind of folding table.
> >
> > I'd like, if you don't mind, to get some recommendations. I need a
> > table, legs collapsible, 6 ft maximum length, that will
> >
> > support maybe 100 ??? 120 lbs of weight, but doesn't weigh a ton itself.
> > I am thinking adjustable leg height would be nice,
> >
> > but not strictly necessary. Have you found the ideal item yourself ?
> >
> > thanks-
> >
> > Hue Miller
> >
> >
> >
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> Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2018 00:47:31 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Joe Connor <joeconnor53 at yahoo.com>
> To: ARC-5 List <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>, BoatAnchors QTH
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> Subject: [Milsurplus] Any News On BAMA?
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> Does anyone have any updates on the BAMA outage? There is a thread on ARF
> (link below), but no one seems to know anything definitive. It's a scary
> thought that some of the resources we take for granted may disappear.?
>
> ????????????Joe Connor
> http://www.antiqueradios.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=344692&start=20
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> Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2018 00:58:41 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Jim Whartenby <antqradio at sbcglobal.net>
> To: "milsurplus at mailman.qth.net" <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Military Radios - LA County Estate - auction
> or scrap?
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> PeterI know how you feel. ?Any solution has to be cost effective, i.e. it
> must make money. ?Good for you if you have a plan that will work!Jim
> I wonder why people argue over the 10% of their differences and ignore the
> 90% they agree on?
>
> From: Peter Gottlieb <kb2vtl at gmail.com>
> To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
> Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2018 7:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Military Radios - LA County Estate - auction or
> scrap?
>
> Obviously many items can no longer be used for their original purposes;
> consider
> older aircraft radios.? So what I would support is electronics recycling
> where
> items would be available for reclaiming before going on to scrap.?
> Although few
> and far between, there are some such commercial outfits around today.
>
> As a society we throw away far too much usable material.? The energy,
> labor and
> raw materials that went into that material is all wasted if it ends up in
> landfills.? Plus, the landfills become clogged.
>
> How would this be operable?? Who knows.? I was more thinking of just
> enough of a
> regulation that it would tip the balance from CYA to preserve for others.?
> Maybe
> some sort of tax writeoff?
>
>
>
> On 8/11/2018 7:52 PM, Jim Whartenby wrote:
> > Peter, your kidding, right?
> > Would not mandatory re-use laws make criminals of us all? ?Do you still
> have
> > your AMPS (1st generation) cell phone? ?Oh, never mind, it's no longer
> > supported in the US anyway. ?IIRC, my 1G cell phone used Ni-Cad
> batteries,
> > remember them?
> >
> > It's not that I'm not sympathetic but where are we going to put all of
> the old
> > stuff that has been replaced by more modern stuff? ?(Remember George
> Carlin's
> > Stuff routine?) ?As a card carrying throwback, I still have my early
> 1960s era
> > Collins 310F-6 receiver-exciter (a KWT-6 without the PA and HVPS). ?It
> > replaced my 1985 Icom IC-R70 receiver since it did just about the same
> thing
> > but didn't have the coolness factor that comes with a seven foot tall
> rack of
> > aluminum that needs a blower motor to keep it running, not to mention
> 1000
> > times the ac power. <grin>
> >
> > I feel for the guy in LA or, more correctly, for his heirs. ?Evidently
> he had
> > the same problem I now have. ?It's hard to let go of things that I had
> wanted
> > some 50 odd years ago and now finally have. ?Of course the fun was
> partly in
> > the finding and partly in getting it working. ?But then what, put it in
> > storage and then move on to something else? ?D'oh! ?(See Homer Simpson
> for
> > meaning)
> >
> > Times change and I'm glad I don't ever have to clean up after horses. ?I
> > believe it is so much easier to just gas up the car to go to the store
> then to
> > harness up a team.
> > Jim
> > I wonder why people argue over the 10% of their differences and ignore
> the 90%
> > they agree on?
> >
> >
> >
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> > *From:* Peter Gottlieb <kb2vtl at gmail.com>
> > *To:* milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
> > *Sent:* Saturday, August 11, 2018 5:02 PM
> > *Subject:* Re: [Milsurplus] Military Radios - LA County Estate - auction
> or scrap?
> >
> > That happens all the time with electronic equipment and machine tool
> shops.? Why
> > aren't there mandatory re-use laws instead of ones which trigger
> people's CYA
> > reflexes?
> >
> >
> > On 8/11/2018 5:44 PM, Joe Connor via Milsurplus wrote:
> > > Here's why I made the point about legal requirements for disposition.
> Just
> > > before I retired from the county prosecutor's office, the local law
> library
> > > (run by the state judiciary) was being closed. We could have used some
> of the
> > > hard-to-find out-of-print books from that library and would have
> gladly given
> > > them a new home. The head judge, however, was a brainless bureaucrat.
> He was
> > > so paranoid about violating state bidding laws that he had all those
> books put
> > > in a dumpster rather than let us put them to good use. He even refused
> to give
> > > us a heads-up on when they were going into the dumpster so we could
> just
> > > coincidentally happen by and "find" them. It still pisses me off.
> > >
> > >
> > > ????????????????????????? ? Joe Connor
> > >
> > > On Saturday, August 11, 2018, 5:30:09 PM EDT, Robert Meadows
> > > <rpmeadow at bellsouth.net <mailto:rpmeadow at bellsouth.net>> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > I think a few folk missed the note, this is part of an estate that the
> County
> > > has a duty to dispose of properly.
> > >
> > > Therefore, someone out there on the left coast should just go and make
> an
> > > offer, a reasonable offer to clear the estate.
> > >
> > > Otherwise is there an honest fellow out there with sufficient
> knowledge to
> > > evaluate and advise proper value?
> > >
> > > Better to assist and get the gear to new and good homes than to see it
> sent to
> > > the junk pile.
> > >
> > > R
> > >
> > > *From:*milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> > <mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net>
> > > [mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> > <mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net>] *On Behalf Of *Joe Connor
> via
> > > Milsurplus
> > > *Sent:* Saturday, August 11, 2018 4:31 PM
> > > *To:* Military Surplus Mail List; Hubert Miller
> > > *Subject:* Re: [Milsurplus] Military Radios - LA County Estate -
> auction or
> > scrap?
> > >
> > > Since this is a governmental entity, they may not be allowed to simply
> donate
> > > it to a private radio club. Usually, property that a governmental
> entity wants
> > > to dispose of has to be sold at auction to the highest bidder. The only
> > > alternative might be the scrap heap. Before anyone tells this guy an
> auction
> > > wouldn't be worth it, we should probably know what the alternative (if
> any) to
> > > an auction is.
> > >
> > > Joe Connor
> > >
> > > On Saturday, August 11, 2018, 4:00:21 PM EDT, Hubert Miller
> > > <Kargo_cult at msn.com <mailto:Kargo_cult at msn.com>> wrote:
> > >
> > > Considering the amount of chaff to wheat there, it doesn't look to me
> like an
> > > auction would be worth their time at all.
> > > The HF receivers don't look too bad and deserve to survive. They
> should just
> > > donate the stuff to a local ham radio club
> > >
> > > and let the club sign waivers to get the stuff out of there, let the
> club
> > > dispose of it with a percentage to a local charity.
> > >
> > > Maybe pluck tubes from the FGC-1 units ? I don't know how hard or easy
> it is
> > > to get rid of old metal chassis etc. I took
> > >
> > > some dead recent electronics to a recycling center yesterday and it's
> a whole
> > > new world, the current recycling rules,
> > >
> > > particularly so in the smaller locales, where the recyclers apparently
> are in
> > > more of a fix.
> > >
> > > -Hue
> > >
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