[NJARC] BC-610 - It ain't that heavy!

[John Dilks K2TQN]

At 02:01 PM 3/5/2007, you wrote:
>I'd love to get a BC-610 someday -- YEAH, I KNOW I
>GOTTA GET MY GENERAL FIRST ;-) -- or a T-368. Problem
>with all those big rigs is that they're too darn big
>for a basement shack. You need to run them in the
>garage or someplace else. Or put in Bilko doors to the
>basement.

Hi John and group,

The 610 comes apart into 3 light chassis and some cabinet 
pieces.  You can further lighten the load by removing all the heavy 
tubes and carrying them down separately.

Remember: Gravity works to your advantage when installing a BC610 in 
the cellar.  It also helps a lot when the XYL wants it out and nobody 
will help - You don't mention it comes apart - so it stays in place.  :-)

Seriously, a good hand truck and one chassis at a time and some help 
will make it a manageable job.  I had mine in the walk-up attic/spare 
bedroom in my rental home near Langley AFB back in the late 60's.  I 
took it up one chassis at a time and reassembled it.  When I was 
ready to move back to NJ, the moving company came by to survey the 
load.  I offered to knock it down and told them they would have to 
provide crates.  They told me they move refrigerators all the time 
and they could handle that.  I warned them that I didn't think so.

So they moved it on a hand truck and broke every overhang on each 
step coming down from the attic.  The landlord was livid and had to 
sue the moving company to get paid.  I had to call the AF base legal 
office to get things moving for the landlord.

Anyway, after all that, the 610 fired right up back in NJ and I was 
back on the air using RTTY on 80-m.  This proves that Hallicrafters 
engineering did a great job.

73, John Dilks, K2TQN