RE: Reproduction Tempest spinners?

Ok, so maybe I'm not going crazy. I looked at that knob and thought "That
doesn't look like a real Tempest knob. It looks exactly like a knob on some
of my father's Ham radio equipment!" I'll have to check his Collins gear
next time I visit. As far as I recall (and that might not be too far,
but..) the real Tempest spinner has a "flat" top with a totally different
style edge around the circumference on the top side. The picture here
definitely does not look like any of the knobs that I have seen on any
Tempest - this one being the odd man out. At least this repro has the skirt
around the base. :-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Swazey [mailto:sswazey@qualcomm.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 3:54 AM
> To: vectorlist@synthcom.com
> Subject: Re: VECTOR: Reproduction Tempest spinners?
>
>
> I'm pretty sure that's a Collins HF radio knob, I put one on
> a tempest (OK,
> I'm not a purest), The Collins knob is about the same
> diameter, but about
> 1/8-3/16" shorter. It looks like they duplicated the wrong
> tempest knob.
>
> -Scott
>
>
>
>
> At 10:43 PM 3/4/01 -0800, Clay Cowgill wrote:
> >Weird how you find things on the web. I was digging through
> my website
> >useage logs (like I don't have anything better to do)
> looking to see who's
> >linking to me and after checking out a couple sites ran across this:
> >
> >http://www.geocities.com/buckey29/main.htm
> >
> >Click on the "pictures" link to see the reproduction spinner knob.
> >
> >Anyone have a Tempest spinner with that knob on it? I've
> never seen one
> >with the "wedge" top to it before...
> >
> >I like the look of his replacement spinner assembly-- that
> big flywheel
> >should spin nicely.
> >
> >Anyway, it's more MAME oriented, but the thought of a decent
> Tempest spinner
> >knob replacement is kinda cool. I'm goin got toss him an
> e-mail and ask
> >about the knob...
> >
> >-Clay
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Received on Mon Mar 5 09:26:16 2001