Buy from Radio Mart with extreme caution, do a Google search on Radio Mart and
see what turns up.
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Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 1:36 AM
Subject: Re: [drakelist] ebay purcase, a tale
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"Howard Traxler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello again Howard, This is germain to your original question.
I'm the one that said watch out for the pictures that make things look better
than they are.
Good example was an AC3 power supply that I very recently purchased. And this
WAS from the firm that you said you were looking at for an AC4. However as I
advised that party was very prompt in RE a financial refund situation caused
by myself.
Also I keep a copy of the posted ad saved to the computer, and take pics of
everything.
Please understand that I would go through a piece of equipment anyway.
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From the picture of the AC3 power supply you could see the old caps and the
power lead with all of its wires hanging out of the chassis without a retainer
clip, also a possible dropped unit from the ding on the transformer.
What the picture didn't show was the power cord (2 lead) plug end mangled
which I have changed to a w/ground anyway. That the someone installed feet
were all broken and down to epoxied mounting bolts and nuts that had to be cut
off the bottom panel, and that panel straightened where bent up by the broken
feet. FWIW The original panel had threaded inserts.
What the ad didn't say and a picture cannot show, was that there was a blown
apart diode (D4), a cold solder joint on resistor (R3), which also had the lead
for the test point cut off. A broken capacitor mounting base which allowed
(C2) cap pin to hit the chassis. Part of this was a poor owner or ? repair,
and part of it was when flipped over (or dropped) all of the weight hit the one
cap and broke it out. The latter could have been seller caused.
NOW WITH THE ABOVE IN MIND......IN THE AD;
The seller said "one owner" I can't picture a ham with any kind of
technical ability doing what was done to probably attempt a repair.....but who
knows.
The seller said "excellent cosmetic and electronic condition"
The seller said " I have fully tested and it is 100 % perfect working
condition" ....
Certainly don't know how he "tested" nor what his rating scale is for
"working condition".
Carl Hibbard
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