I agree. WAØSTX
----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <amradio@mailman.qth.net> Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 8:36 PM Subject: [AMRadio] EXPENSIVE RANGERS > I have to step in here and add my 2 cents. > > While I, too, believe that a ranger in that price range is a little much, > let's take a quick look at simple economics. > > I have no idea what the gentleman paid for his Ranger, but I have seen them > go at hamfests for from $75 to $225 unrestored. > > Dee charges $250 to strip and repaint a complete cabinet, including new > lettering. If you haven't seen Dee's work, you are missing a thing of real > beauty. Absolutely fabulous! > > This unit has been recapped and had temperature compensating caps placed in > the VFO. That big resistor that heats up and causes drift has been moved > outside the enclosure. > > Let's say that all the caps cost $50.00. > > Let's say that the labor involved in cleaning the unit up, recapping getting > it working and alignment took 5 hours, probably more. The man's time has to > be worth a minimum of $20.00 and that is lowballing it. > > Let's say four knobs had to be replaced at $10.00 each. > > Let's assume that the cabinet has Dee's expert restoration at $250.00. > > Let's assume the man paid $125.00 for the Ranger to start with. > > My humble abacus shows the total to be $565.00 and that does not allow for > other incidentals which may have been needed. > > If you replace your current rig part by part, you couldn't come close to > affording it unless you have a much bigger bank account than mine. > > When I got my ticket back in 1953, I couldn't afford a Viking II kit, much > less the VFO, so I got creative and borrowed the money from my grandmother. > I paid it back, too! Meanwhile, the rich kid across was running all Collins > and a Telrex beam. A friend of mine had a rig given to him by his Elmer. > > The modern kids today are driving around in Lexus, BMW and others. They park > in my neighborhood since there is no room at the school parking lot. When > they leave each day, the trash is unbelieveable. Why can't they drive used > heaps like I did, buy used gear or get a loan, like I did and make good > marks, get a good education resulting in a good job. Then they can afford to > relieve their childhood and buy all the used rigs they wanted in their > childhood and restore them like I am doing. > > 73, > > John, W4AWM > HALLICRAFTERS SPOKEN HERE > > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- > multipart/alternative > text/plain (text body -- kept) > text/html > The reason this message is shown is because the post was in HTML > or had an attachment. Attachments are not allowed. > Please post in Plain-Text only.--- > _______________________________________________ > AMRadio mailing list > AMRadio@mailman.qth.net > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio
