Hi Brian,
No doubt, you are right about those plastic cases being on Ham-M only.
Anyway, I had one that melted ! !
Stan
w7ni@easystreet.com
alsopb wrote:
> Stan,
>
> I've never seen the plastic case control boxes for any other use than
> HAMm's.
>
> Have had several 2's, 3's and 4's here and they all had metal cases
> control boxes. These units all have meter indication 100% on the
> time. Apparently, only the Ham-m control boxes had to be modified for
> such. Made such a mod back in 1960 along with brake delay to a Ham-m
> box.
>
> 73 de Brian/K3KO
>
> Stan or Patricia Griffiths wrote:
> >
> > The Ham-M, Ham II, and Ham III used brown (sometimes black)
> > plastic boxes for housing the control unit, I believe. I
> > any case, I have one of those cases with a couple of melted
> > places where the bulbs are. Now I suspect that some of the
> > higher powered bulbs were installed and heated the case to
> > the melting point . . . something to consider when choosing
> > replacement bulbs.
> >
> > I just happened to remember that I had modified those
> > control units to indicate direction all of the time so those
> > bulbs were lit 100% of the time.
> >
> > Stan
> > w7ni@easystreet.com
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