[R-390] Shock mount update

[Tom Chirhart]

I bought one of Mac’s NOS cabinets for the R-390 and still have the emails. He found a cache of them and drove a long distance to get them and lug them home... a couple were destroyed in shipments and he sold the shock mounts and plates. I bought a set of shock mounts and plates for a second cabinet that didn’t have them... the plates wouldn’t be that difficult to build if someone has a good machine shop with a bender that can bend thick aluminum... 73 Tom K4NCG 

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> On Dec 1, 2019, at 2:39 PM, Dan Martin <pitfit at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> “Leave it to Surplus Sales
> to find a cache of 50 year old mounts!”
> 
> Indeed! Leave it to Mac, W5MC.
> 
> A number of years ago, I and many (a few?) others bought NOS (or newly manufactured?) CY-979A cabinets w/shock mounts and skids from Mac. A little later I bought a 51J-4 cabinet from him - the “real one”, with a hinged lid and the appropriately-sized panel cutout on the back.
> 
> Both cabinets came wrapped, packaged, and were clearly ”brand new”. Just beautiful.
> 
> Disclaimer - >not< cheap! I never knew how Mac came by them or where he is today. He was a big CCA guy back in the day.
> 
> Maybe Locklear, Rippel, or Howard, W5HM, who lives nearby, will know the story and provenance of Mac’s “finds” re: R-390A and J-4 cabinets.
> 
> Dan
> WB4GRA
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Dec 1, 2019, at 1:30 PM, Paul Staupe <staupe at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Leave it to Surplus Sales
>> to find a cache of 50 year old mounts!
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