[Milsurplus] R-460 USCG

[Bob kb8tq]

Hi

Yes, this is off topic ….

One of my favorite question to ask at the end of the back room tour or this or that restored plane in the museum:

“How much of this is from the original aircraft?”

You typically then get bumped over to somebody else. You chat a bit more. The answer often turns out to be “not much at all”. They did a *lot* of fab work …..

Many of these radios die of transformer failure. Building a power transformer from scratch is less insane than much of what the aircraft folks are doing. Will we eventually get to the point that somebody starts doing custom transformers for these sets? Who knows …. (those airplanes do sell for a bit more than these radios ….). 

Bob

> On Dec 12, 2023, at 3:38 AM, Hubert Miller <Kargo_cult at msn.com> wrote:
> 
> Here’s the ‘before’ photo. It was cleaned up some by the previous owner, who graciously gave it to me,
> after it became a transformer donor. You have to admit, it does have the look.  The coil finish is kind of
> odd. I do not know how close it is to HRO-50; i never did buy the manual for it. I would NOT start this
> as a project with such minimal pieces as you have, for sure. That makes me think of rebuilding a fighter
> plane from some wing found in the jungle. You COULD do it, sure, but there are many other candidates
> out there that are more practical. My opinion.
> I gave away an NBS-1 a year or so back; it had the National standard “missing power transformer”. I
> regret now giving that thing away. I sold an AMR-101 about the same time. I sort of regret that also.
> What moved me, literally, to sell it was the weight of the shipping trunk / operating rack. The thing
> looked real good, but the whole setup must have weighed 300 lbs.
> -Hue Miller
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