[Premium-Rx] HF-2050 help

[Mark Donaldson]

I bought two of those eBay Canadian demilled HF-2050
and have restored them to perfect condition both
functionally and cosmetically, finding parts is not
that hard especially with the help of some of the
memebers of the Premium-RX group. The nice thing about
the Canadian demilled HF-2050s is how they went about
demilling them by carefully tapping with a hammer or
snipping out the same parts in each receiver while
leaving other areas in perfectly good condition it was
not too difficult to replace the damaged components
and "re-mil" the receivers, a far cry from how the US
demils equipment by rolling over them with a tank. The
worst of the demiling process was the smashing of the
front panel including the LCD displays, this was
solved by purchasing a replacement front panel from
that surplus outfit in Montreal, without knowing I
could get those front panels I would not have
attempted to repair the receivers. FYI I bought the
last two RXs that the eBay seller had.

Mark Donaldson  WA1QHQ

--- Walter Salmaniw <salmaniw at shaw.ca> wrote:

> At 04:13 PM 11/30/2006, Geoff Fors wrote:
> 
> >Speaking of 2050's, about two or three years ago
> there was a quantity of them on eBay which had been
> "de-milled" by smashing the displays and the front
> panels with a hammer and possibly some other
> internal damage (sigh...)  I don't remember them
> selling for all that much, as I think most of us
> felt that finding the parts to repair them would be
> a daunting task.
> > 
> >If replacement fronts were later available
> separately, it would appear that perhaps some of our
> members had bought those radios and have now
> repaired them, the story of which would make
> interesting reading!
> > 
> >Geoff
> >WB6NVH
> 
> 
> Geoff, I follow the 2050 story rather closely, being
> one of the original 2050 drivers.  I've owned 7
> total, and now still have 3.  The only eBay seller
> I've seen with "parts" is a commercial outfit out of
> Montreal that I'm quite certain would be NOS items,
> probably purchased in bulk from the Canadian
> military.  I doubt very much that they did anything
> more than that.  Now, I'm sure that some owners
> might very well have resurrected the de-milled ones,
> kind of like what so many people have done with the
> venerable Collins R-390A, but haven't personally
> seen any of these units.......Walt Salmaniw,
> Victoria
> 
> 
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