Unbuilt Heathkits

[al winfrey]

I agree with most of what you said John, but to me the most amazing thing about eBay is
the amount of activity that a single trivial listing can generate on the listservers.
The unbuilding part is especially dumb.  Frankly, I'd rather watch a dogfight or
television, in that order...!

It's true that I enjoyed building a few Heathkits in the sixties myself but also have
had a lot more fun in later years working with "pre-owned" models that I could not
afford when they were first introduced.  The eBay auctions help here by making a variety
of these units available to anyone who'd care to bid on them. The prices are usually
higher than hamfest prices but one can go to a lot of hamfests and still not find what
he is looking for!

al winfrey - wa9hsl
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John Clifford wrote:

> I think the idea of dissassembling a Heathkit to sell it to someone else to
> build is ridiculous.  There are plenty of good kits out there to build...
> perhaps the best selection ever in terms of performance versus dollars.
> Surely the time and effort required to successfully dissassemble something
> like an HW-8 and prepare it for reassembly will not be compensated for by
> the money.

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