Unbilt C-3 cap tester

[Jack Crenshaw]

I agree.  FWIW, I talked to a fellow who shall remain nameless, who bids on a lot of
these unbuilt kits.  His explanation really explained a lot for me.

He is, he said, both a lover of building kits, and a collector of unbuilts.  He hates to
ruin an unbuilt by building it, but at the same time, he likes to build them.  He said
that sometimes he likes to take finished kits apart, just for the fun of building them
again.  So you can see why someone like that would see the unbuilt-built-unbuilt as the
answer to prayer.  It lets him build kits again, but without taking a true unbuilt out of
circulation.

What all of this makes abundantly clear is that there is a real need out there for more
kits for people.  Last time I said this, someone pointed out that there are already
companies making ham receivers and transmitters.  Mebbe so, but clearly there's no one
filling a need for cap checker kits!

When I was at Heathkit, they told me that there was a kernel of about 1000 people,
worldwide, who just bought every new kit that they came out with, whether they wanted it
or not.  They just liked building kits.  The fact that it actually did something after it
was finished was secondary.

Jack

Murray Grandy wrote:

> There is another unbuilt built  unbilt C-3 on ebay by the same person. I
> think this shows a need for old style electronic kits.
>
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