[Milsurplus] TRC-10 question

[Hubert Miller]

Will someone please give me the dimensions of the TRC-10 radio ?
I have one, but without cabinet, oh woe is me, and minus the connector on front, which i can replace with a BC-654 connector.
I know William Howard had a cabinet built by a sheet metal professional for his own TRC-10, but i have not seen it, and i cannot
believe it was a convincing replica. The original cabinet has spaces for key and spares and so on.

I saw in a French book about WW2 Resistance radios a photo of a PRC-1 in a suitcase larger than the radio. Most PRC-1 have
a well fitting suitcase, but this one had some metal skirts around the radio to build out the radio to fit the larger suitcase.

I saw a small suitcase in an antique store and this got me to thinking about doing the same thing. Making some metal skirting
for the radio to build it into a smallish civilian suitcase.  The TRC-10 i have is too nice, really, to just use as a parts set. A suitcase
would not be strictly authentic for the TRC-10, which was really only supplied in the military metal cabinet, but it's better than
nothing.

The TRC-10 is basically the same radio as the PRC-1, but....according to my docs, of meetings with Pilot Radio engineers and
military reps, it looks like the war was coming to its end before the TRC-10 actually had the design and corrections finalized
and was maybe never deployed. I have the AC  power supply and the antenna kit also.
-Hue Miller
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