[Milsurplus] Sic Transit Gloria Motrac

[Dave Merrill]

The Motracs were pretty tough but I doubt they would survive an explosive
driven hammer.

On Sun, May 27, 2018, 10:13 AM Mike Feher <n4fs at eozinc.com> wrote:

> Almost my entire engineering career was for the military. Have you ever
> seen a hammer test on equipment? The largest one I have ever seen was at,
> as I recall, NAS Indianapolis. There they had a very large, explosion
> driven projectile designed to hit the gear. Sadly, I never saw that one in
> action. However, some of the hammer test that I witnessed did create some
> interesting and unexpected results. 73 – Mike
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> Mike B. Feher, N4FS
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> *From:* milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net <
> milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net> *On Behalf Of *Dave Merrill
> *Sent:* Sunday, May 27, 2018 10:52 AM
> *Cc:* milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
> *Subject:* Re: [Milsurplus] Sic Transit Gloria Motrac
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> Group,
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> My first job out of the US Army in 1968 was with Motorola in Schaumburg. I
> was a tech on the Motrac line and my job was to power up the freshly
> assembled units and make sure each one worked to spec. The last test was to
> put the unit on a dummy load with a Bird 43 wattmeter, key the mike and
> then beat on it with a rubber mallet, looking for any power output change
> that would signal a problem, perhaps an intermittent connection. Needless
> to say I enjoyed that part of the test. I've never had another job in
> electronics where a good hammering on the product was encouraged.
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> I miss those days.
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> 73,
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> Dave
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> N9ZC
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