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24th Oct 2022, 12:32 am | #1 |
Tetrode
Join Date: Apr 2019
Location: Warminster, Pennsylvania, USA.
Posts: 83
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AR88 Front Stainless Attachment
Had another AR88 follow me home a while back. Started digging into it today and I noticed that the front panel stainless is not held on by "t" shaped hardware but it clips to a bracket that is spotwelded to the front panel. I've worked on and own many of these receivers and this is the first I've seen attached this way.
Was this a common practice, maybe a manufacturing plant difference? Tom W3TA |
24th Oct 2022, 4:25 pm | #2 |
Dekatron
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Surrey, UK.
Posts: 4,400
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Re: AR88 Front Stainless Attachment
I wonder- whilst one of the good things about these sets is consistency of overall detail over a large production run, there were peripheral detail alterations. With large numbers required urgently for British (in particular, plus others) requirements, it wouldn't surprise me if there was a degree of batch sub-contracting for various parts. My AR88D has a thick and beautifully crisply cut engraved aluminium front panel secured to the chassis with 0BA studs and with fine olive drab crackle paint, the shiny panel finishers being pressed onto a sub-strip secured with 6BA screws- this choice of fasteners makes me think that it was an after-the-event British job, perhaps the RAF who seemed to rather like these sets and used them long into the post-war era.
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