[sdiy] Davies 1900H ( again )

[Grant Richter]

I've been told the 1900 was the radio tuning knob for the WWII Willies Jeep.
The one in all the war movies. I don't know, but I do know that is why
Davies can't figure out why the public won't just let it die, like they wish
it would. They also told me their machine makes 10,000 knobs in 8 hours of
operation, which is more than they can sell in an entire year. So it is not
worth running it even 1 day a year.

Also the mechanism that puts the lines on is worn out and not worth fixing.

The fact that the knobs looks so bad, didn't help with keeping the 300
series in production.

> From: Tom Arnold <xyzzy at sysabend.org>
> Organization: The Sysabend Dump
> Reply-To: xyzzy at sysabend.org
> Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 12:51:57 -0800
> To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> Subject: [sdiy] Davies 1900H ( again )
> 
> Yes, I'm revisiting this topic *again*
> 
> What are the chances I could find people interested in 9000 davies 1900H
> *type* knobs at 60cents each?  With the price dropping pretty dramatically
> in Q3000 increments?  A long time ago I sent some 1900H's to Taiwan Knobs
> and they sent me a quote and I just havent quite been to a point where I
> could realistically consider placing the order.
> 
> Can you tell I'm fed up with the lack of acceptable knobs?  I expect Davies
> themselves could come close to the 60cent price on that sort of quantity,
> however the orders after that would drop by half because of the initial
> tooling charge.
> 
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