[R-390] Depot Dogs

[Charles Steinmetz]

Bill wrote:

> Then all the modules set aside because
> of complex problems (dogs) had to be worked to meet the final total shipping
> quota. there were a lot of hair pulling on many of these "dogs" trying to
> get them to meet mil specs. The final receivers met all specs

I suspect that isn't strictly true.  I've worked on quite a few LAD 
depot dogs, and many of them had intractable problems that I believe 
were present both when the affected modules arrived at LAD and when they 
left in assembled radios.  Things like wires crushed under chassis 
hardware, electrolytic capacitors installed backwards, connectors with 
missing pins that had obviously never been opened after original 
assembly, RF/IF transformers with shorted turns due to obvious 
manufacturing defects, components with mismarked values, etc., etc., all 
of which were clearly present when the modules were originally 
manufactured and had not been re-worked subsequently.

I believe that by the end, LAD was not checking the outgoing dogs 
particularly carefully and that quite a few did not work properly.  Many 
still don't.

Best regards,

Charles