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This UNBUILT kit is in excellent, near mint condition and appears to
be complete with all documentation.

Manufactured by The Heath Company, Benton Harbor, Michigan.

$200

Includes shipping, packing and insurance in continental US via FedEx
Ground. Outer shipping carton and additional packing will be
supplied.

Email me if you need more details or specific information:

Mike Nowlen

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"Barry OGrady" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 14:00:29 -0400, Mike Nowlen wrote:

This UNBUILT kit is in excellent, near mint condition and appears to
be complete with all documentation.

Manufactured by The Heath Company, Benton Harbor, Michigan.

$200

Try $5. Fully working multimeters are cheap.


Includes shipping, packing and insurance in continental US via FedEx
Ground. Outer shipping carton and additional packing will be
supplied.

Email me if you need more details or specific information:

Mike Nowlen


Barry
=====
Home page
http://members.iinet.net.au/~barry.og

Try $5. Fully working multimeters are cheap.

but Barry, he is not selling a fully working multimeter ...

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But is it any better and why spend $200 on a kit when you could
homebrew one, possibly cheaper, if you know what to do?

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On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 12:04:29 +1000, Barry OGrady
wrote:

On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 14:00:29 -0400, Mike Nowlen wrote:

This UNBUILT kit is in excellent, near mint condition and appears to
be complete with all documentation.

Manufactured by The Heath Company, Benton Harbor, Michigan.

$200

Try $5. Fully working multimeters are cheap. snip

I think his spam is trying to target Heath collectors, of which there
are a few around, I've read. For utility's sake, though, almost any
DMM or even a good, used VTVM would be a far better deal.

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ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

Barry OGrady wrote:


Try $5. Fully working multimeters are cheap.



*********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********

Wise up, guys. Unbuilt Heathkits are collector's items, far more
valuable than a built one.

Bill, W6WRT

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"Bill Turner" wrote in message
...
ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

Barry OGrady wrote:


Try $5. Fully working multimeters are cheap.



*********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********

Wise up, guys. Unbuilt Heathkits are collector's items, far more
valuable than a built one.

Bill, W6WRT

.... absolutely correct

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On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 11:11:56 -0700, "graham"
wrote:

Wise up, guys. Unbuilt Heathkits are collector's items, far more
valuable than a built one.

Bill, W6WRT

... absolutely correct snip

I recall an unbuilt Heath AR-15 kit (WORST receiver I've ever owned in
my life, bar none) going for upwards of $500 a few years back. The
AR-15 was beleaguered with many problems, not the least of which was a
chronicly hot-running output stage due to inadequate heat sinks. The
MPX circuit was notoriously flaky on my example, as well, which traced
down to bad caps. Once debugged (and with a fan on its back end) it
was a pretty good FM tuner with an adequately beefy power amp. Sound
was....eh.

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graham wrote:

"Bill Turner" wrote in message
...

ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

Barry OGrady wrote:


Try $5. Fully working multimeters are cheap.



*********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********

Wise up, guys. Unbuilt Heathkits are collector's items, far more
valuable than a built one.

Bill, W6WRT


... absolutely correct


I hear the rattle of chains having been yanked :)

-Bill

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WHERE ARE THE CAPS?

HEATHKIT IM5284 Multimeter - UNBUILT -
 

"Mike Nowlen" wrote in message
...
This UNBUILT kit is in excellent, near mint condition and appears to
be complete with all documentation.

Manufactured by The Heath Company, Benton Harbor, Michigan.

$200

Includes shipping, packing and insurance in continental US via FedEx
Ground. Outer shipping carton and additional packing will be
supplied.

Email me if you need more details or specific information:




Many heathkits are worth more unbuilt than built.





Mike Nowlen

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"Bill Turner" wrote in message
...


Wise up, guys. Unbuilt Heathkits are collector's items, far more
valuable than a built one.

Bill, W6WRT


Yep. Just keep watching this one:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=6624140065

My guess at the final bid: $707.63

jim menning

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Bid higher then.

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Why in the hell is so much of this newsgroups' output about Heath and
push pull all of the sudden? I mean new threads, not just posts.

Must be a slow day.

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jim menning wrote:
Wise up, guys. Unbuilt Heathkits are collector's items, far more
valuable than a built one.
Yep. Just keep watching this one:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=6624140065
My guess at the final bid: $707.63

You know, I'm odd enough that I know better than to question others'
odd hobbies. But can somebody clue me in, because I guess I just don't
get it. Where's the value in these things that make them such high
priced collectibles?

If you build it, it becomes a relatively worthless piece of equipment.
If you save it, you end up with a shelf full of cardboard boxes of no
particular aesthetic merit. I suppose you could invest in them and flip
them for higher prices but there's no fun in that. Seriously, what
makes unbuilt kit collectors tick? Not judging, just really curious.

paul

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ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

Paul Dietenberger wrote:


Seriously, what
makes unbuilt kit collectors tick? Not judging, just really curious.


*********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********

Nostalgia, I'm sure. Non-hams or non-kit builders probably would not be
interested at all.

Bill, W6WRT

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To the poster:

The way Google compiles these things, I could hope you are not "Cin" in
alt.support.grief and we don't think our Bill could be a regular poster
to alt.sex.passwords (sic), and no I didn't look. Since we already have
an existing Bill Turner, who is QUITE well known, and you seem to be a
concern to him (and since you've been here before as I recall), could
you think about adopting a different tag at the least?

Bill has had enough problems lately.

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"jim menning" wrote in message
...
Yep. Just keep watching this one:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=6624140065

My guess at the final bid: $707.63

jim menning


I believe Zenith "persuaded" to discontinue that particular kit... It was a
too obvious
TO 3000 clone. I'd bet it is also a rare model in its own right.

pete

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" Uncle Peter" wrote in message
news:6_e3g.15396$NG.10809@dukeread10...

"jim menning" wrote in message
...
Yep. Just keep watching this one:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=6624140065

My guess at the final bid: $707.63

jim menning


I believe Zenith "persuaded" to discontinue that particular kit... It was a
too obvious
TO 3000 clone. I'd bet it is also a rare model in its own right.

pete



Didn't Zenith and Heathkit team up in their later years?

jim menning

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Steven wrote:

To the poster:

The way Google compiles these things, I could hope you are not "Cin" in
alt.support.grief and we don't think our Bill could be a regular poster
to alt.sex.passwords (sic), and no I didn't look. Since we already have
an existing Bill Turner, who is QUITE well known, and you seem to be a
concern to him (and since you've been here before as I recall), could
you think about adopting a different tag at the least?

Bill has had enough problems lately.


Look at the headers, dumbass. THIS Bill Turner is a regular poster on
the news:rec.radio.amateur.boatanchors newsgroup so why should he have
to change his name to please your paranoid little mind? You would have
seen that the thread is cross posted to three newsgroups, if you had
bothered to look.


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

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jim menning wrote:

" Uncle Peter" wrote in message
news:6_e3g.15396$NG.10809@dukeread10...

"jim menning" wrote in message
...
Yep. Just keep watching this one:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=6624140065

My guess at the final bid: $707.63

jim menning


I believe Zenith "persuaded" to discontinue that particular kit... It was a
too obvious
TO 3000 clone. I'd bet it is also a rare model in its own right.

pete



Didn't Zenith and Heathkit team up in their later years?

jim menning


Zenith bought Heathkit to become "established" in the personal
computer business to bid on a number of computer contracts with the US
military. I had the news clipping somewhere from a trade journal, but I
haven't seen it in some time.


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

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I DID. Please quit yelling now. We had this happen a couple years ago
too, and I noted that then also.

Nobody is the moron you think I am.



Michael A. Terrell wrote:
Steven wrote:

To the poster:

The way Google compiles these things, I could hope you are not "Cin" in
alt.support.grief and we don't think our Bill could be a regular poster
to alt.sex.passwords (sic), and no I didn't look. Since we already have
an existing Bill Turner, who is QUITE well known, and you seem to be a
concern to him (and since you've been here before as I recall), could
you think about adopting a different tag at the least?

Bill has had enough problems lately.


Look at the headers, dumbass. THIS Bill Turner is a regular poster on
the news:rec.radio.amateur.boatanchors newsgroup so why should he have
to change his name to please your paranoid little mind? You would have
seen that the thread is cross posted to three newsgroups, if you had
bothered to look.


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

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"jim menning" wrote in message
...

Didn't Zenith and Heathkit team up in their later years?

I've seen the name Heath/Zenith on motion sensing lights sold by Home Depot
just recently. RM~

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Rob Mills wrote:

"jim menning" wrote in message
...

Didn't Zenith and Heathkit team up in their later years?

I've seen the name Heath/Zenith on motion sensing lights sold by Home Depot
just recently. RM~


The last ones I saw simply said Zenith. They sold Heathkit a few
years ago.


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

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Steven wrote:

I DID. Please quit yelling now. We had this happen a couple years ago
too, and I noted that then also.

Nobody is the moron you think I am.

Michael A. Terrell wrote:
Steven wrote:

To the poster:

The way Google compiles these things, I could hope you are not "Cin" in
alt.support.grief and we don't think our Bill could be a regular poster
to alt.sex.passwords (sic), and no I didn't look. Since we already have
an existing Bill Turner, who is QUITE well known, and you seem to be a
concern to him (and since you've been here before as I recall), could
you think about adopting a different tag at the least?

Bill has had enough problems lately.


Look at the headers, dumbass. THIS Bill Turner is a regular poster on
the news:rec.radio.amateur.boatanchors newsgroup so why should he have
to change his name to please your paranoid little mind? You would have
seen that the thread is cross posted to three newsgroups, if you had
bothered to look.


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida


So, now you claim that you knew the other Bill turner was a regular
on one of the cross posted group and yo still wanted him to change his
name? What a ****** liar.


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

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ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 01:38:39 GMT, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:

Look at the headers, dumbass. THIS Bill Turner is a regular poster on
the news:rec.radio.amateur.boatanchors newsgroup so why should he have
to change his name to please your paranoid little mind?

*********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********

Be careful about your Bill Turners. There are at least two of us. When
I post to a ham radio group I always use my callsign, like below. And
I haven't posted to boatanchors for a long time, if ever.

Bill, W6WRT

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Michael A. Terrell wrote:
Steven wrote:

I DID. Please quit yelling now. We had this happen a couple years ago
too, and I noted that then also.

Nobody is the moron you think I am.

Michael A. Terrell wrote:
Steven wrote:

To the poster:

The way Google compiles these things, I could hope you are not "Cin" in
alt.support.grief and we don't think our Bill could be a regular poster
to alt.sex.passwords (sic), and no I didn't look. Since we already have
an existing Bill Turner, who is QUITE well known, and you seem to be a
concern to him (and since you've been here before as I recall), could
you think about adopting a different tag at the least?

Bill has had enough problems lately.


Look at the headers, dumbass. THIS Bill Turner is a regular poster on
the news:rec.radio.amateur.boatanchors newsgroup so why should he have
to change his name to please your paranoid little mind? You would have
seen that the thread is cross posted to three newsgroups, if you had
bothered to look.


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida


So, now you claim that you knew the other Bill turner was a regular
on one of the cross posted group and yo still wanted him to change his
name? What a ****** liar.

Shut up! This was over two years ago and HERE. Just because you're a
newsgroup whore and on everything in sight...

--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

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Bill Turner wrote:
ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 01:38:39 GMT, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:

Look at the headers, dumbass. THIS Bill Turner is a regular poster on
the news:rec.radio.amateur.boatanchors newsgroup so why should he have
to change his name to please your paranoid little mind?

*********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********

Be careful about your Bill Turners. There are at least two of us. When
I post to a ham radio group I always use my callsign, like below. And
I haven't posted to boatanchors for a long time, if ever.

Bill, W6WRT

I'm not in boatanchors but this has been crossposted for a long time,
which I've been more than aware of. Now it's just getting twisted like
a pretzel. And I'm leaving it that way. Maybe it will be fun watching
it unravel this time.

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Bill Turner wrote:

ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 01:38:39 GMT, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:

Look at the headers, dumbass. THIS Bill Turner is a regular poster on
the news:rec.radio.amateur.boatanchors newsgroup so why should he have
to change his name to please your paranoid little mind?

*********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********

Be careful about your Bill Turners. There are at least two of us. When
I post to a ham radio group I always use my callsign, like below. And
I haven't posted to boatanchors for a long time, if ever.

Bill, W6WRT


Bill, I have seen your post on several of the rec.radio.amateur
newsgroups over the past year, always with your call sign. Your writing
style is very different, and you don't use all caps like the other Bill.


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

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Steven wrote:

Michael A. Terrell wrote:
Steven wrote:

I DID. Please quit yelling now. We had this happen a couple years ago
too, and I noted that then also.

Nobody is the moron you think I am.

Michael A. Terrell wrote:
Steven wrote:

To the poster:

The way Google compiles these things, I could hope you are not "Cin" in
alt.support.grief and we don't think our Bill could be a regular poster
to alt.sex.passwords (sic), and no I didn't look. Since we already have
an existing Bill Turner, who is QUITE well known, and you seem to be a
concern to him (and since you've been here before as I recall), could
you think about adopting a different tag at the least?

Bill has had enough problems lately.


Look at the headers, dumbass. THIS Bill Turner is a regular poster on
the news:rec.radio.amateur.boatanchors newsgroup so why should he have
to change his name to please your paranoid little mind? You would have
seen that the thread is cross posted to three newsgroups, if you had
bothered to look.


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida


So, now you claim that you knew the other Bill turner was a regular
on one of the cross posted group and yo still wanted him to change his
name? What a ****** liar.

Shut up! This was over two years ago and HERE. Just because you're a
newsgroup whore and on everything in sight...


WHAT WAS TWO YEARS AGO?????? You keep saying that, but I have no
idea what in the hell you are blathering on about, as usual. No little
**** ant like you is going to call me names, then tell me to shut up.


Whore? You've lived on welfare you whole useless life, and now you
have the gall to call people names? Go away, Skippy. You're not
wanted, you're not welcome. Get it? Go away. You are the sickest joke
on Usenet, and you are back to your old tricks that got you thrown off
your last ISP. Keep it up and the complaints will pour in from the same
people that got your plug pulled the last time. The woman you harassed
last year is still ****ed at you. I just fixed her computer, and I
think I will give her your new e-mail address so she can tell you off,
again. She still thinks that you are some sort of a butch lesbian from
the way you talked to her on the telephone.


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

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Steven wrote:

I don't exactly exist for this retarded box and impotent TV mess you
know as a computer. It helps me find parts though.


It does? Then PLEASE find yourself a working brain.


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

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Michael A. Terrell wrote:
Steven wrote:

I don't exactly exist for this retarded box and impotent TV mess you
know as a computer. It helps me find parts though.


It does? Then PLEASE find yourself a working brain.

I'm not sending it to you...


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

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Michael A. Terrell wrote:


Zenith bought Heathkit to become "established" in the personal
computer business to bid on a number of computer contracts with the US
military. I had the news clipping somewhere from a trade journal, but I
haven't seen it in some time.

....and IIRC, they ultimately sunk Heathkit due to neglect of the
non-computer part of Heath.

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Carter-K8VT wrote:

Michael A. Terrell wrote:

Zenith bought Heathkit to become "established" in the personal
computer business to bid on a number of computer contracts with the US
military. I had the news clipping somewhere from a trade journal, but I
haven't seen it in some time.

...and IIRC, they ultimately sunk Heathkit due to neglect of the
non-computer part of Heath.


Sure, all they wanted was a place to sell lots of their monitor
assemblies and complete monitors, as well as tap into government
contracts. Have you ever opened one of their TEMPEST rated CGA or VGA
monitors?


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

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Steven wrote:

Michael A. Terrell wrote:
Steven wrote:

I don't exactly exist for this retarded box and impotent TV mess you
know as a computer. It helps me find parts though.


It does? Then PLEASE find yourself a working brain.

I'm not sending it to you...


Hauling coal to Newcastle?


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

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On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:25:27 GMT, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:

Steven wrote:

Michael A. Terrell wrote:
Steven wrote:

I don't exactly exist for this retarded box and impotent TV mess you
know as a computer. It helps me find parts though.


It does? Then PLEASE find yourself a working brain.

I'm not sending it to you...


Hauling coal to Newcastle? snip

Steven and Charlie Nudo are two peas in a very, very rotten pod.

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Oh, pick on me now.

At least you didn't invent me.

It's an honor to be misconstrued by such as yourself. Really!

Legitimizes my entire life.

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Steven wrote:

Oh, pick on me now.

At least you didn't invent me.

It's an honor to be misconstrued by such as yourself. Really!

Legitimizes my entire life.


I doubt that anyone has ever accused you of being legitimate. :(


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

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On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 00:29:38 GMT, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:

I doubt that anyone has ever accused you of being legitimate. :( snip

He's not. He's Charlie Nudo's ******* spawn...or is it the other way
around?

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"jim menning" wrote in message
...

"Bill Turner" wrote in message
...


Wise up, guys. Unbuilt Heathkits are collector's items, far more
valuable than a built one.

Bill, W6WRT


Yep. Just keep watching this one:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=6624140065

My guess at the final bid: $707.63

jim menning




Darn, I was a little short. Winning bid: $787.77. But I'm still not surprised by
that.

jim menning

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On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 14:00:29 -0400, Mike Nowlen
wrote:

This UNBUILT kit is in excellent, near mint condition and appears to
be complete with all documentation.

Manufactured by The Heath Company, Benton Harbor, Michigan.

$200

Includes shipping, packing and insurance in continental US via FedEx
Ground. Outer shipping carton and additional packing will be
supplied.

Email me if you need more details or specific information:

Mike Nowlen


I built that meter back in the late 70s. Took forever to wire up the
main front panel switch. And then I had no way to really calibrate it,
not having any lab-standard equipment on hand. Oh well, it is an
un-built Heathkit... perhaps that is enough for some.

I seem to recall the cost was somewhere around $30 or $40, unbuilt.

bob
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