[R-390] Fuse Holders Still Needed

[Tim Shoppa]

>  I'm still looking for a
> half-dozen fuse holders for my R390As.  Specifically, I'd like to have some
> of the quality that were originally installed in these radios (milspec?).  I
> can find several type from Littelfuse, Bussman, etc., but they generally
> don't look quite the same as the originals.  They generally have plastic
> nuts and are cheaper-looking in general than the originals.

My yellow-striper came from Fair Radio with a busted up fuseholder....
and a little plastic baggie with a pretty decent new fuseholder (and a buncha
other things that I'll need as I put it all back together... knob, counter cover/glass,
AC input cover, etc.)  It's not an exact cosmetic
match for the other fuseholders but is close, and it has a metal (not plastic) nut.

So call them and ask what they've got.

I was surprised when you said that you were having a hard time finding a fuseholder
with a metal nut, but then I look in the Digikey and Mouser catalogs and they all have
plastic nuts.  Huh.

My other R-390A was retrofitted with the B+ fuses (I'm guessing by a military
depot 40+ years ago, it has almost-but-not-quite-original looking legends for
the B+ fuses), and has one black "traditional" fuseholder for the AC and two gray
very-differently-styled fuseholders for B+.

Tim.