"Jose V. Gavila" wrote:

Good morning,

Yesterday, while attending a local fleamarket (not radio related), a
large dark grey box got my attention. I could not believe it; in the
middle of lots of other items (mostly _real_ junk!), there was a lonely
National NC-183D!. In about two years, it is the second BA I see in that
market (the other was a BC-348 which was fastly sold). The 183D was not
in great shape, having scratches all around it, some oxide, a couple
missing knobs (I will post later for help on this). It was about a 5 on
a 1-10 scale. Internally it was dirt but complete, with all tubes.

I asked price and got 80 Euro (about US$92) as an answer... finally, I
got it for 60 Euro (about US$69)

Of course, money left my wallet and the NC-183D went to my car's boot
:-)

I think it is a nice winter project and hope to be able to restore it to
its former glory (more to come about this as works start)

Regards from a happy camper :-)

JOSE

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73 EB5AGV / EC5AAU - JOSE V. GAVILA

I have a NC-183R on my bench for a complete restoration. A friend of
mine was moving and didn't have enough room to take it. He told me had
it sitting on a shelf for five years, and had never had the time to work
on it. He got it from someone else who had "fixed" it with a bunch of
new caps tacked into the chassis, and hanging loose, all over the place.
It has all the tubes and knobs, but the ventilated top cover is missing.

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Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida