[R-390] Chinese parts

[Shoppa, Tim]

ZS2PG writes:
> Well, we seem to have drifted well OT with the Canon cameras and berets!
> To get back to the original question, is there a source of 390A "pirate parts" (SA
> terminology) from anywhere in the world?

Folks on this list sell their own manufactured versions of:

Knobs
Utah Plates
Top and Bottom louvred covers
Bristol spline setscrews
Custom-inscribed nameplates
Newly manufactured and silk-screened front panels

A guy off this list has in the past sold  "CIA  covers" that he fabricated himself.

I think someone has in the past machined and sold green gears for the 390.

Some of the above have been sold through Fair Radio.

I think that all the sellers of newly manufactured parts clearly call out that they are not "original", in many cases they are superior. But honestly I'm not sure I could tell a newly manufactured Utah plate from an original.

Tim.