Wanted: NON FUNCTIONAL VT-4-C and VT-25 vacuum tubes, other gear for B-17 setup

The Vintage Flying Museum at Meacham Field in Fort Worth, Texas,

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an IRS-approved non-profit organization, is looking for five vacuum tubes to complete its static display of a B-17 WW2 bomber "SCR-287-A liason radio station" setup. They have already received donations of quite a few components, but they are still missing a few others. The museum owns and regularly flies "Chuckie" -- a B-17G aircraft.

They need four NON-FUNCTIONAL VT-4-C and one VT-25 vacuum tubes (they don't have to work, there's no plan to make the setup operational, they just want it to look complete).

They are also looking for:

DM-28 - Dynamotor for BC-348 receiver (any letter suffix OK!) FT-142A - Mounting Tray for BC-306A antenna coupler FT-107 - Mounting Tray for PE-73C dynamotor PL-59 - Connector (need 2) PL-61 - Connector (need 2) PL-64 - Connector SA-13 - DPDT knife switch (antenna selector switch) BC-461 - Trailing Antenna Control Box RL-30B - Trailing Antenna Motor and Spool F-10 - Antenna Fairlead MC-163 - Trailing Antenna

If you have non-working vacuum tubes or any other components on the list which you wish to _donate_ (all donations are tax-deductible), please contact them at snipped-for-privacy@vintageflyingmuseum.org. Their contact info is:

Vintage Flying Museum

505 NW 38TH ST. Hangar 33 South Fort Worth, Texas 76106 Phone (817) 624-1935 Fax (817) 624-2840
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Michael A. Terrell

Do you have the civilian NUMBERS FOR THE VACUUM TUBES ??

Jerry

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jerry wass

That kind of defeats the purpose of displaying military radios, doesn't it? There are plenty of the original tubes around, and a lot of people mount a dead tube on a piece of Walnut to use as a paperweight, or they display the old tubes in large shadowboxes.

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The military tubes often had different base configurations and filament voltages than their civilian counterparts. For example, the

1625 is an 807 with a 12-V filament instead of a 6.3-V filament and a different pin-out.

Thing is, the Victor-Tare numbers above are not what was printed on the tubes. Here's a cross-reference to the JAN numbers:

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Don

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Don Tuite

Look them up on Google or eBay, no need for "civilian numbers".

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I saw a thing floating around about the restoration of Enola Gay.

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They were worried about things like the vacuum tubes having the correct date codes.

So they probably would not have wanted the civilian equivalents!!

Bill Hale

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This setup will not be located in the aircraft, it will be on a static display in the museum.

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