[Milsurplus] Milsurplus Digest, Vol 169, Issue 81

[Jeff Kruth]

Fat Chance, Pete!


I have been going to the various sales and looking and it is all junk now. There are VERY FEW "radar" sets around, as I am always looking. You can piece them together, but no cables. Ten years back they sold the avionics from an F-4 for dirt, as several of the the guys told me, because it was too much stuff to handle. Now they have a deal with an electronics scrapper so if they get too much stuff to handle,  it gets converted to shreddings. Pretty sure no good stuff there as they do trade a bit as well. 
 
Your best bet is an estate sale for an old Raytheon guy or similar. Watch the papers!
 
Even the museums are not getting complete systems and the docents are usually not able to restore anything to operational condition, just display fodder.
 I passed up piles of WWII and later stuff (including a complete APS-3!) up in New Hampshire 20 years ago in a deceased friends house & basement. Now I wish I had made the effort to lug it home. His brother begged me, but I was too sad about my friend and too busy.
 
The real loss was Radio Research. THATS where all the older radar gear went! Sold by the pound to the Chinese for scrap metal, loaded in skips and dumped in holds of ships. Some stuff new in the box still. It kills me that I thought of making a pilgrimage and never did. Paul Plishner accumulated that stuff like a magnet.
 
Recently at Dayton/Xenia I caught up with a friend who deals test equipment. He has bought a shredder. He mentioned several surplus dealers he cleaned out in the past year that I knew. Chop,chop!  He ships the metal for reclamation overseas. I find that odd for several reasons.
 
Oh well, you can't have everything! Where would you put it?
 
73
Jeff Kruth
 
 
In a message dated 5/27/2018 12:33:37 AM Eastern Standard Time, milsurplus-request at mailman.qth.net writes:

 
I?d love to be at a sale at the electronics museum in Maryland and pick up some beautiful radar set. I?m still interested. 



Peter
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