Thanks for the story -- I also had a friend William Hazard King (later
N6AEK) now SK who wrote the technical manuals for the Knight Kits. He told
the same story of employees looting the kits by trashing them.
Small world

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"patgkz" wrote in message
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Not totally unrelated but interesting:

I worked with a guy who went to DeVry in Chicago and worked part-time,
nights for Allied's Knight-Kit division as a repair tech. He once told me
the story of a Knight AM-FM tuner that was returned from the builder as
non-working.

The tuner had a newfangled Printed Circuit board (this was in the 1950's).
Instructions told the builder to completely fill the PC board hole around
each inserted component and wire. My friend found a shorted IF
transformer
on the board and removed it. Thinking the IF can was quite unusually
heavy,
he removed the aluminum cover to find the entire interior of the
transfomrer
filled with solder! He then checked the remaining cans on the
board....you
guessed it, all the same.

He also described a scandal at Knight kit where inside warehouse employees
were filling the dumpster with boxed kits during the day and then
retrieving
them at night.
There was supposedly a big investigation and many firings, that was in the
late 50's.

My friend just recently passed away, no more stories, but it was
interesting
hearing directly from an old Allied employee....bet there's not that many
around now.




Keyboard In The Wilderness" wrote in message
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Saw a post asking about this and I recall a James Knight company -- maybe
making crystals.
Did Allied buy them and then adopt the Knight name to their kits ????

Just a guess
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