[Milsurplus] [Boatanchors] Something Refreshing

[Ed Sharpe]

trw  used to have lots of radios in the 70s!
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On Saturday, March 3, 2018 Peter Gottlieb <kb2vtl at gmail.com> wrote:
Last week I was in LA and was able to take some time to hit a few places.  I went to Apex, Norton and Luky's Hardware on one day and then got to the TRW swapmeet the next morning. Apex is chock full of impossible to find items.  I mean that in two ways ;-)  If you are anywhere near there you must spend some time searching, there is always something you just must have and you cannot escape without getting a pile (my pile was under 10 pounds, I exercised great restraint).  I was told business is way off and there are fewer and fewer real experimenters, just movie prop people. Norton has rocketry hardware and lots of hydraulics.  Carlos the owner, a great guy, says he is going to get rid of most of the parts for sale and just go on with renting props to the movie people. That's a shame but who still plays with aviation hydraulics anymore? Luky's Hardware is unique, she (also a delightful lady) sells mostly aerospace hardware out of bins.  Like an old fashioned hardware store with nails in bins you buy by the pound, she sells super high end hardware.  I bought as much weight-wise as I dared to add to my luggage of beautiful precision hardware like silver plated nuts. When I build something I like it to look nice.  She will ship so if you need something give her a call. I had always wanted to go to the TRW swapmeet.  It is held in a big parking lot, free entry to buyers.  Not too much radio or military gear but some test equipment, special tools, a lot of standard low end swapmeet stuff like computer stuff and Chinese bins of small tools.  There was various surplus from local companies but not a lot.  One guy had some Cubic receivers but they looked like prototypes or engineering use, had some visible internal mods and looked like they never had any ID tags on them.  Tempting, cheap, but I'd have to get to a pack and ship place and that would add a lot to the cost and I would have no idea if what I bought could be resurrected.  The seller didn't even know if they were HF or VHF or what.  He did say the dual receiver works, thought it was HF, but he has the power supply modules at home.  I passed.  I did get a cool little mystery box from him for $5.  I bought it for the micro-D connectors and cables but when I got it home and opened it I found it to be extremely complex with two PCBs with tons of memory and gate arrays and RF in/out via 4 SMA connectors.  I have no idea what this thing is but it's modern.  I'm going to refrain from scavenging any parts until I can give it a try to find info.  I also picked up a mil connector special crimp tool, the type which makes two sets of 4 indentations in the pin and has a turret for the different pin sizes.  That was my best bargain at $15 (we bought a used one at work for $500).  I should have bought the AN/PRM-10 grid dip meter kit for $40, I really should have.  I regret not getting that but shipping was on my mind and oh well.  Now I want one; I guess I'll have to keep an eye out at Xenia this summer.  Overall it was a decent swapmeet, not as big or radio as NEARfest and nowhere near the class of Xenia but I'm glad I went and if I'm in the area another time it's on I'll go. Peter kb2vtl 

On 3/3/2018 8:51 PM, David Stinson wrote: > We have a place here in Dallas/Ft. Worth like that, Joe. Tanner Electronics in Carrolton, Texas run by Jim Tanner and his family. They are terrific people and it's really the only electronic surplus house of any consequence left in this whole giant metro area. When he's open, the place is full of nerds like me. I've told Jim that the Texas Legislature has passed a law that he has to live forever and never close his business. > https://www.google.com/search?q=tanner+electronic+carrolton&oq=tanner+electronic+carrolton > > ______________________________________________________________ > Milsurplus mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/milsurplus > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Milsurplus at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Milsurplus mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/milsurplus Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Milsurplus at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html

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