Meter

[William Lockwood]

Murray, the company in Perkasie, PA  was the  "Electro-Mechanical Instrument
Co." not the Ideal Precision Meter Co. I posted the address and phone number
of the latter on the Heath list.

Bill






At 12:35 AM 7/22/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Ideal Precision was what I thought was the old name. I tried Chamber of
>Commerce, etc, around Perkasie PA, where they used to be, and found no
>record. I tried a TV shop, randomly selected from directory assistance,
>and they didn't know anything. I thought about trying OLD hams in the
>Callbook, but didn't get that far. I thought there musta been hams
>working there at some point.
>
>Recently, by accident, a Canadian ham on this list and I crossed paths,
>and he had tracked Ideal to Bronx or Brooklyn, NY. He had contacted them
>and found they would make things for a minimum purchase of six pieces
>(probably complete meters). That was not practical for him so no further
>discussion of cost took place. I put that on my list of 4,265,876 things
>I want to do someday, and of course never got around to it.
>
>I got nowhere with Thomas Register or EEM Online, but didn't try
>directory assistance for Brooklyn or Bronx. Maybe someone else wants to
>take up the quest and become a cottage industry. That's what I had in
>mind, but building too many rooms on the cottage before finishing the
>roof makes no sense.
>
>Good luck.
>
>Murray
>
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