[R-390] What happened to all the NOS parts?

[AI2Q]

"Ah, where have all the parts gone?  Gone to graveyards, every one.  When 
will we ever learn? When will we ever learn?"

When I was in Vietnam in 1966, an AF sergeant called me to check out a CONEX 
container sutting on the tarmac in Pleiku airfield. K9BWI and myself looked 
it over and saw thousands of new parts, all in multi-layer MIL wrappings. 
Thse parts were for R-390As, RT-718s (KWM-2As), etc.--- and all were waiting 
for disposal/destruction.  The entire contents of that container was slated 
for the trash dump.

If you think that was wasteful, it was nothing compared to the pallets of 
R-390As piled up sitting in the mudfield!  Whatever happened to those?

Vy 73, AI2Q, Alex in Maine  http://users.adelphia.net/~alexmm/ai2q.htm



----- Original Message ----- 
From: Roy Morgan
To: Barry ; R-390 List
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 4:22 PM
Subject: Re: [R-390] What happened to all the NOS parts?


At 03:23 PM 7/7/2005, Barry wrote:
>I still think there's a box of 100,000 #8-36 Bristol-drive set screws
>somewhere besides the bottom of the ocean.

Oh indeed. we need to find that box!

While we are at it, does anyone have or know of a source for a 3/8 inch 32
tpi tap????

I am planning to mount some BNC connectors in the clamp fitting of Twinax
connectors to make UG-whatever-it-is substitutes, for antenna connections
on the R-390's.

Roy


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