[R-390] cy-979 cabinets

[Tom M.]

To:ACME RADIO AND DYNAMITE COMPANY
City: AUSTIN
Country: TEXAS

Gentlemen?

In re of yours of the 26th, yours to hand, beg to rep [ ], we have gone over the 
ground carefully, to wit, i.e., e.g., in lieu, and agree that an undertaking of 
this magnitude and would reflect positively on your great country of Texas.  
Please consider this office in full support of the venture.

Yours ambiguously,

Honorable Charles H. Hungadunga
Hungadunga, Hungadunga, Hungadunga, Hungadunga & McCormick



----- Original Message ----
From: libbysales <libbysales at austin.rr.com>
To: r-390 at mailman.qth.net
Sent: Sun, December 26, 2010 3:34:48 PM
Subject: [R-390] cy-979 cabinets

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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