[R-390] $5000.00 390A????

[barry williams]

That sounds like the guy for sure. I remember his 2 As and some other 
items and the time frame is right. He wasn't shy about rooting out the 
good stuff, which is a good thing. A few years ago, I sort of did a 
similar thing by putting an ad in the local Bulletin Board advertiser 
that goes for $1 every week. The ads were free. I asked for items with 
tubes, or other gear. I came home with a lot of goodies. I paid a 
little, but a lot was free. Thousands of tubes and several 
Transoceanics. I need to start that back up soon.

I wish we had recyclers around here. Or, better yet, military surplus 
stores.


the other Barry

> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 8:38 PM, barry williams<ba.williams at charter.net>wrote:
>
>> By the way, who was the list member way back who always came up with
>> boat anchors when he went dumpster diving? He was always telling us
>> about finding all kinds of stuff. I can't remember his name now. I
>> almost hated him at times when he found something.
>>
> Boy, I hope it wasn't me! The last things I fished out of a commercial
> dumpster maybe 8 years back were several large slate electrical panels with
> solid copper buss bars and knife switches. Might've posted about it on here
> back around 2004? Dunno. Since moving south I've discovered numerous things
> dropped off at the local recycling center from an early Motorola AM/FM set
> that works fine to scanners and, most recently, a pile of Altec audio gear.
> Missed some nice Bose speakers a few months back, though. I do keep my eyes
> peeled whenever I go over for the odd gray or black box with knobs, but
> they have a dump nazi who pitches a fit the days he's there. It's not like
> I don't bring them enough trading material. (o:
>
> Chances are it was Pat who lived south of me then in Brattleboro VT. He
> used to call me with piles of radios for sale that he'd hauled home. Bought
> his last two R-390As from him in 2000/2001 along with a BC-348 and SX-42,
> all for $400. He stopped posting and vanished owning me the AF deck for one
> of the As.
>
> Howdy to you, Walter. It's been a while. Somewhere on one of the computer
> drives I still have the nice photos you took of your gear train rebuild
> eons ago. Very helpful to this day. What a difference a good cleaning
> makes.
>
> de Todd/'Boomer'  KA1KAQ/4
>