[sdiy] Davies 1900H ( again )

[Tom Arnold]

On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 05:59:53PM -0600, Grant Richter wrote:
> 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.

Well, if they'd run it for 8 hours and sell the knobs for 25cents, I'd buy
the 8 hours of production... but they dont think like that.

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

I was wondering about that.  The line quality on the ones I have is really
poor.  Taiwan Knobs asked if they could clean up the line on the production
units as the samples I sent were icky. Looked like someone carved the line
with a dremel tool and painted it with nail polish...

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