[R-390] cy-979 cabinets

[w9ya]

Um... would it make any sense to ask the firm if they can drop ship them ? ;

- As you point out they can and often did get damaged in shipment, and
shipping twice adds to the odds of such damage.

- Why add to the cost to ship ?

Vy 73 de

- Bob
w9ya

On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 2:34 PM, libbysales <libbysales at austin.rr.com>wrote:

> Readers:  several years ago I had found and offered a small sum of original
> cabinets, that were for the large part still wrapped in those large brown
> sealed bags, these were made in the 1989-1992 ear it seemed ..  those were
> sold and I thought that was the end of them forever..
>
> But along the way I discovered several things, these came to me direct from
> a DRMO facility, included in some of the pacing materials were original
> inspection and DD-250 reports, these showed who had built the cabinets and
> when they were accepted by the Govt buying activity.  I didn't give it a lot
> of thought at the time,  but did keep the info, later I started making calls
> or trying to find these companies, of the 3 firms one is no longer in
> business and no information is available it seems... the second is still in
> business but has no interest in this project, but did agree to sell me the
> drawing package for the total details to build the cabinets if I so wanted,
> the third company is also still in business, they have 28-32 of the cabinets
> left over from the last order, they regularly over built on orders for these
> cabinets, to allow for shipping damage and such ..  I know this fact to be a
> valid one,  in have found these cabinets over the years don't always ship
> well or at
>  least w/o some damage... this company is also the company that made the
> last production run and their cabinets featured the 'nut plate'  that
> floated..  this allowed the receivers to actually fit into the cabinets far
> better and didn't require you to have to hold your mouth just right to get
> the front panel screws to force fit the front panel into the cabinet,
>  rather it allowed a very good fit and didn't require near the effort to get
> the 8 front panel screws to all align...
>
> some can see where this is headed,  they are very willing to sell the 32
> odd cabinets to me...  they feel sure they have this authority and will not
> be under any restrictions...  personally I cant see any reason either,  it
> is not like these cabinets ever posed any security risk or threat...
>
> from my experiences over the past 13 or so years I have hunted these
> cabinets down and such, the packing shipping and such is a good part of the
> cost, this company is not close to me..  I can buy these cabinets for 425.00
> each shipped to me or 385.00 if I drive up and accept delivery...
>
> I don't know what the market is,  but I will commit to buy the 32 cabinets
> and offer them for sale for $480.00 each... I expect to have them shipped to
> me,  my time and fuel cost would equate to a 4 day trip and fuel plus some
> small trailer rental, so it seems to make better sense for these to just be
> shipped to me, I can pack them and ship them for about 23.00 as I recall,
> that will leave me a very small profit margin but I will have the fun and
> once more experience of finding these and the like and I do enjoy these
> efforts...
>
> so this is offer #1  at 480.00 each  I will be able to provide a brand new
> cabinet to you, shipped to your lower 48 address, I am told the data plates
> are BLANK, they have no serial no. stamped into that area... the represented
> thinks they have 6 black cabinets and the rest are gray, in 97' I had a few
> black cabinets, I thought they were pretty much a pig in a sack at the time
> ..  I sent one to Les Locklear and a few to Chuck Ripple ..  as I find out
> these are pretty well sought after ..  but my point it looks like this lot
> might have a handful included..
>
> Offer # 2  the company willing to sell the drawing package is wanting
> 2500.00  for the package, they claim the cabinets can be produced by most
> competent shops using these drawings for about a 300.00 each price amount,
> painted and ready for shipping...I don't know this for fact,  they are
> willing to let me have the top level drawing package if I sign an agreement
> and promise to not do things that will try and reverse engineer these
> cabinets,  if I agree to this offer it will allow me to go out and try and
> find a local or nearby shop who can make these at I hope a lower price and
> not have shipping involved, this is all speculation and will require some
> extended time and effort on my part to see if indeed this can be done and
> that the quality is equal or better...  I welcome your comments and such on
> this idea...
>
> so we have some options here,  plan # 1 is pretty much a deal I am going to
> do...  if you want to buy one of these or more as I have discovered, last
> time one person bought 6 total... do this, make a deposit of $150.00 to my
> PayPal account :   libbysales at austin.rr.com   I have no problem asking for
> this,  my reputation is good for this,  the effort several years ago was
> drawn out and obstacle filled but I did deliver all but one cabinet to those
> that had made deposits or ordered one ..   to my knowledge everyone was
> pleased, it did take a bit,  but no one got too pissed or such at the length
> it took .. IF you decide you want to not buy or your financial situation
> changes I will be pleased to refund your deposit money 100% no questions
> asked ... that is as good as I can make it for you ..
>
> This has gone pretty long, but I know what I am offering, I know what is
> involved, I have a good reputation on these cabinets...
>
> thank you for the read...  mac/mc  w5mc
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