[Milsurplus] Japanese 94-5 Corrosion

[Hubert Miller]

Such a coincidence, Dave. I just today referred to my PDF of the 94-5 manual.
Wondering now why I had thought to do this, I traced back my thoughts. So,
today I was looking at tube sockets I was saving. Then I thought of the tubes in
the 94-5 receiver, the tubes that don't have U.S. equivalents. The 94-5 EEIS
manual outlines replacing the Japan tubes and tube sockets with U.S. standard
and lists the U.S. replacement tubes. But this I thought, was an uncalled for hack.
First I thought about socket extenders or adapters, but would those plus U.S.
tubes fit? I suspect not. I think the solution for me is to make up transistor – FET
plug-in adapters.

Now back to your example. I have a battery bag for the 94-6 walkie talkie, and
the leather is quite dry and stiff. I wondered a long time about what treatment to
use. After some years I saw an article or two in an antique – collector or militaria
magazine and the advice was to just not use anything on the leather, that all, ALL
treatments are harmful. Article said that's just the price of using organic materials.
So anyway, I have held off doing anything with this leather bag or the flaps of the
94-5 receiver. BTW, it's storage that is critical, apparently, as I have an "unissued"
condition 94-5 set where the flaps are still all clean and perfectly flexible.

I have some BC-1000 carry straps that have the green stain on the D rings. I have
wondered how to clean the whole D ring, as there's part that is covered by canvas
webbing and some that's edged by metal and thus hard to clean. I wonder how to
neutralize that green growth.
-Hue Miller
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