Interestingly, when Drake shipped these back in the day, they used the very box and suspension that you see in the listing.? I'm thinking that simply putting this box in another box with a little padding would be just fine.
One of the good things about Drake equipment is that it was and is not "dense", relative to other equipment from the era like the big National receivers.? If a TR-4 gets bumped around, it may pop some tubes out of their sockets but the sets aren't 75 lb dreadnoughts and so there's a lot less kinetic energy when dropped.
73,
Steve Wedge, W1ES/4
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On Monday, May 15th, 2023 at 2:34 PM, John K5MO <johnk5mo@...> wrote:
Looks great, though I see one of the rear feet has been pushed in, but that's an easy fix.
Hard to imagine a rig like this purchased but never used, but Ebay is good for surfacing things like this. My worry about buying something like this is about the care the seller might or might not take, in packaging it.
Thanks for the post, Steve
John K5MO
On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 1:32?PM Steve Wedge, W1ES/4 via <w1es=
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I've never seen one with the purple tag on the PLATE control before and it does look like an open box/never-used rig.
One thing to be cautious of is that trapped moisture in that factory bag can wreak variable havoc inside. I bought a B Line station that was almost never used but had been stored in their original packing and the outer cabinets had spots of bubbling in the paint and there was a small amount of mould on the wiring. The copper chassis were and are still mint on them and the mould was rectified by doing a full wash and dry. I swapped cabinets with the equipment I was replacing with these and sold them with photos of the blemishes.
I do see some white spots in places that could be mould. Still, it's essentially an unused rig that's 45 years old and will need to be brought up slowly to reform the capacitors, but man! what a find!
Steve Wedge, W1ES/4
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