[R-390] Hosstraders hamfest/gear clamps?

b w [email protected]
Mon, 15 Sep 2003 19:34:47 -0500


Well, if you are writing these important requests down and stuffing it 
in your wallet, here is a big one for me:

The large tuning/bandspread knob for a lowly S-38B. That is all I need 
to have mine in top condition and they are impossible to find.


the other other Barry

> Okay, I realize this is a bit off-topic but I'm posting it back to the 
> list because someone was actually making these new windows and I can't 
> recall who. Anyone remember? I picked up a decent S-27 there two years 
> back for $25 as a parts donor, but it's too nice to part out. Missing 
> some tunbes, the cabinet, tuning knob and a few other small things but 
> otherwise in good shape. Unfortunately I think the window is slightly 
> different in the -27, but maybe it's the dial I'm thinking of? 
> Different frequency coverage, slightly. I have a -12 or -15, can't 
> recall which. I'd like to find the navy gray version of the -16 with 
> the smooth black metal dial escutcheon, no 'S-36A' stamped into it. 
> Seen a few, never bothered to grab one.
>
> Check around, I think you'll find that someone had those dial windows 
> reproduced. I need one for my AR88LF if anyone stumbles across one.
>
> ~ Boomer,  KA1KAQ
>
> Michael Melland, W9WIS wrote:
>
>> While you are at the hamfest looking at stuff..... I need the tuning 
>> dial
>> window for a Navy RBK-16 27.8 MHz to 143 MHz receiver (1952).
>