<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body><div>It is also possible that your Heathkit was built by a technician at one of the Heathkit's stores. It was common practice for the technicians to build the store's demo/display models. I built the SB-104 station and other kits when I was a tech for the Heathkit store in Milwaukee back in the mid-70s.</div><div><br></div><div>Greg Latus </div><div>WB9TRO </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757" dir="auto">Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.</div></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Robert Millard <millardphotos@gmail.com> </div><div>Date: 1/16/18 1:15 PM (GMT-06:00) </div><div>To: "Kenneth G. Gordon" <kgordon2006@frontier.com> </div><div>Cc: Heath@puck.nether.net </div><div>Subject: Re: [Heath] SB-610 Monitor Scope </div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr">I have one of the "Factory Wired" Heathkits. It is an IG-18 audio signal generator. It was wired very nicely but unlike the kit version, the circuit board was pop riveted on to the chassis. The kits were the usual nut & bolt method of mounting circuit boards to chassis.<div><br></div><div>AFAIK there was no pre-wired or factory wired Heathkit ham gear.</div><div><br></div><div>Bob Millard</div><div>KE6JI</div><div><br></div><div>I have owned Heathkit equipment since 1961</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 10:57 AM, Kenneth G. Gordon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kgordon2006@frontier.com" target="_blank">kgordon2006@frontier.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 16 Jan 2018 at 10:37, Mike Fitzgerald wrote:<br>
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> I have acquired an SB-610 Monitor Scope with the series number 940-3719..This is the<br>
> best built Heathkit I have ever seen...And I've seen many! It's so good it may have been<br>
> factory built...Were any of these scopes built by the factory? If so, for what purpose?<br>
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I have no idea on your 'scope, but I DO know that Heathkit had at least one outside outfit<br>
build some of their kits for sale to schools.<br>
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As I remember it, some Heathkit employees were hired to do some of that work too.<br>
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In fact, there were several of their kits which were sold under a slightly different model<br>
number which were factory-built for schools and labs.<br>
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I owned several (13) of their factory-built high-voltage, variable, regulated supplies, the<br>
IP-27 and its following models, which I bought from the University of Idaho's surplus sales<br>
department some time ago. I refurbished them all, and sold all but the "worst looking" ones<br>
on eBay. I kept 4 or so and use them on my bench.<br>
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Ken W7EKB<br>
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