Warbird Information Exchange

We are looking for the following specific WW2 USAAF radio components for use in restoring the radio compartment aboard B-17G Chuckie:

For SCR-274-N Command Radio station:

BC-458-A, Transmitter, 5.3 - 7.0 MHz, unpainted aluminum style
FT-221, Shock mount for FT-220
FT-222, Mounting plate for BC-450-A
FT-227, Shock mount for FT-226
FT-229, Mounting plate for BC-442-A
FT-230, Remote adaptor for receiver, NEED 3, Used with BC-453/454/455
MC-215, Spline shaft, 15’ long, NEED 3, Used with BC-453/454/455
MC-211, Right angle spline shaft coupling, NEED 3, Used with BC-453/454/455
PL-147, Connector, NEED 1, Used with FT-220
PL-148, Connector, NEED 1, Used with BC-456-A
PL-151, Connector, NEED 3, Used with BC-456-A and FT-220
PL-152, Connector, NEED 6, Used with BC-450-A and FT-220
PL-153, Connector, NEED 1, Used with BC-451-A and BC-456-A
PL-154, Connector, NEED 2, Used with FT-226 and BC-456-A
PL-156, Connector, NEED 1, Used with FT-226 and BC-442-A
Mounting rails for CS-48 tuning unit cases

For SCR-287-A Liason Radio station:

FT-142-A, BC-306A Mounting Tray
VT-4-C, Vacuum tube, NEED 1 to 4 of them, also known as type 211A
VT-25, Vacuum tube, NEED 1
PL-59, Connector, NEED 1, High Voltage Supply
PL-61, Connector, NEED 1, Low Voltage Supply and Control Wiring
BC-461, Trailing Antenna Control Box
RL-30B, Trailing Antenna Motor & Spool
Mounting bracket/clamp for F-10-A feedthrough tube
Fuselage fairing for F-10-A feedthrough tube
MC-163, Trailing Antenna wire and weight
DM-28, Dynamotor for BC-348 receiver, installs inside receiver
Power connector for BC-348 receiver (attaches to shock mount tray)

The vacuum tubes can be "duds" since they're only for display.

Please, if you can help with any of this, we would appreciate it. Money is really tight, so we're hoping for donations. We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit museum, so your donation is tax-deductible, and we will provide the necessary documentation. If a cash sale is the only way to get what we need, still let me know and I'll see if I can come up with the money myself.

If you have any excess radio gear you'd like to donate, we can always use it for trade goods or put it on display in the exhibit hall.

Cheers!

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Dean Hemphill, K5DH
Port Charlotte, Florida

Dean-
Good & Bad News- I have a some of the mount items, but need the ones I have. I would be happy to photograph and make blueprints so you may reproduce them. The rubber mount insulators themselves are available, and the trays are pretty much just bent aluminum sheet, so you could do a very nice reproduction of the originals.

I have the FT-229A, FT-220A, FT-221A, FT-226A, FT-234A, FT-233A.

I am looking for the mounting plate for the BC-306A, as well as the ones for the BC-450, and BC-348. If you have pics and dims, I can make these... I am also looking for the FL-5A filter, the BC-347 interphone amplifier and the BC-433 Radio Navigation Receiver, BC-375 plugs- PL-59 & PL-61, P-64(2 each).

I will have to see what connectors I may have surplus to my needs- but I would probably want to do a little trading if possible... Not too many, but possibly a few ARC-5 conns. Have to finish my project first- should be by the end of the month.

I also have an AN/ARN-5 Receiver(for WWII Glide Slope ind.) which was new in box, with the instructions. (Box was shot, but unit beautiful) And I will have to check which unit is operable- I have two BC-458As, but one is RCAF, and the other is USN CBY-52210(My display is an operable set of B-26 radios, so I need to be sure what I have wil meet that standard- I intend to use it not only for WWII USAAF displays, but also HAM ops.

PM me if you have any interest in my making some pics, diagrams, etc. of the mounts, and I'll be glad to.

I have one ARC radio mount, for two radios side by side, but there is no military designation, and dual plugs going into one of the radios- I have no idea what that one is for... Looks like an FT-226A, except for the dual plugs on one side, singe on the other.

Robbie

If I ever do make the move to Texas, perhaps we can get my operable radios into your operable B-17- just have to make sure the wiring is still in place, and the engine shielding intact... I heard Collings had the radios put in for a demo, but shielding had been changed, and the WWII stuff was pretty well unreadable.
R.