[Milsurplus] WWII Warbird radio job

[John Hutchins]

Group -
Keep up the work Chuck!
This maybe a bit morbid ....  I would rather give a NOS or Near NOS set 
to as project that may or will use the item as intended.   That is 
cool.  could you imagine having a Ham working real B17 radios on the 
ground with the dynamotors humming and radios crackling as in times gone 
by!  What a thrill.  How many fly-ins I have seen where the radios are 
silent or worse yet empty hollow hulks.  Now if it happens that a the 
Aircraft, Vehicle, or Boat meets an untimely end well so be it.  A far 
worse fate may await your NOS items upon your passing .....  Sold to 
bidder .....  How would you prefer your equipment go out?-}  Me I would 
prefer flaming, sinking or crashing; than to the auction hammer or 
worse.  I wish I could afford to move out there and work on projects  
like these .....
Hutch



On 9/17/2013 5:19 PM, Mike Morrow wrote:
>> Sorry you feel that way guys. We do NOT restore hangar queens.
>> Maybe this is not the correct place to post but I was told to
>> look here for help.
> Bear with us Chuck.  I suspect the majority here recognize how stunning
> the goal and the ultimate achievement of authentically configuring the
> avionics of 70 year old military aircraft represents.  It is extremely
> difficult today, but it's a project to be encouraged whenever it is
> seriously pursued.  What I hate are those "sporterized" military aircraft
> (like the CAF's) that have almost no connection under the skin to the
> technology that produced the aircraft for military use.
>
> About half of the items in your list, incomplete as you noted, are
> very hard to find.  Some of the items you listed I've been seeking for
> 25 years without ever seeing one for sale.  However, I don't live near
> D-M AFB where all sorts of goodies have made it into local hands without
> showing up, out here in the Southeast US.
>
> I hope for your success.  It will take a long while to achieve.
>
> 73,
> Mike / KK5F
>
>
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