"Unbuilt" Heathkit

[k4kgw]

Beautifully put, Ken.  Now let's hope that's the last word in the unbuilt, rebuilt, never
built, badly built, etc. string on the reflector!

Keith

Ken wrote:

> Now that's a novel idea, unbuild a built Heathkit and multiply the eBay
> value by a factor of 5-20 times; wow, fun and easy money. SO, I took a
> built, now that's original built, not built-unbuilt-rebuilt and attemped to
> remove all of the components. It wasn't easy and I quickly cursed myself for
> following the assembly manual instructions about forming and crimping the
> component leads to the terminal strips and tube sockets, I should have just
> liquid soldered them in place, Well, after a few hours I managed to burn all
> of my fingers and break most of the tube sockets and terminal strips. This
> method was obviously to slow, hummmm, maybe a little more heat, so out comes
> the torch, well, that didn't work very nicely or neatly and now all that
> smoke. But, at least most of the removed parts can be chucked and not
> checked before the re-build process starts. When I sell it I'll just sweep
> the shack floor and dump in a random pile of small parts, what the hell. I
> finished the parts removal job with the pointy end of a claw hammer, which
> pretty much guaranteed that this Heathkit won't be listed on eBay any time
> soon. Now where did I put that Collins rig, 73's and Happy New Year, Ken
>
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