HW-9 "factory-built" summary...

[Dick Blaney]

I have an SB-303/SB-401 rig with "factory assembled" stickers, and know for a fact that the
original owner ordered them as "factory Assembled" right on the original order.  Extra
cost, of course.
73 de
Dick, WB8MHE

Guy G. Giacopuzzi DDS wrote:

> Radman wrote:
> >
> > Folks,
> >
> > Thanks to the many who responded to my question re: was
> > there ever a partial or factory-built version of the HW-9.
> > The unanimous answer was: no! One gentleman suggested that
> > there may have been some factory-built "display" units --
> > presumably for the Heath retail stores -- but, he couldn't
> > confirm it.
> >
> > That raises an interesting question: "Were there Heath
> > factory-built display/demo products of all the kits for
> > all the Heath stores?"The answer is an absolute yes!  I own an SB-620 with a "factory
> assembled" sticker.  I don't know to what degree this practice was
> carried out.  We had an SB-104plain in our store that I'm almost certain
> was factory built.  My manager would routinely take home Heath audio
> products, build them, and return them to the sound room a week later for
> demo.  He would ask me to build certain kits for demo, as new ones came
> out--typically little kits that he wasn't interested in--anything of any
> significance he wanted to build.  He was a real Heath fanatic...I think
> I remember some other ham rigs being factory built for display--I
> remember an SB-200 and an Hw-101 with factory stickers.  The sticker,
> incidentally, is black on gold backround...
>
> ggg
>
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