[Milsurplus] (Fwd) Re: FT-241 crystals question

[kgordon2006 at frontier.com]

On 10 Jan 2026 at 20:41, Hubert Miller wrote:

> 
> These FT-241 LF rocks have a fail rate somewhere between 40 and 70%.

At least....possibly greater than 70%...

 Seeing that 
> myself, dissuaded me from keeping any of them. I believe the only people who might 
> want them are the vehicle militaria collectors.
> I have not myself seen any article on how to bring them back. Maybe two tiny pressure 
> point contacts, that might get some resonant activity, but there's no longterm fix i know 
> of.
> The 'Boatanchors' ham radio group a decade or so back, had a mass dispersal of an 
> FT-241 lot someone had found. Known as "The Great Crystal Caper". I was sobered by 
> the miserable results testing the crystals, and i wrote off keeping any of those series.
> -Hue Miller

Yes. I was in on that deal. I have not yet found anything from that batch to be of any use 
whatever.

I took some of those crystals apart,opened them up. Most of them had gotten enough 
moisture inside them that the contacts to the crystal had rotted off.

Totally unusable.

Ken W7EKB