Oh, I've still got it. I dont sell things like that (unless someone offers me a new Porche or something for it). Its at my folks place for the moment.
This reminds me of another base station story. About 10 years ago, give or take, I was working for another shop. A customer came in on evening, and said he had a Cobra 142 that didn't work. He set a shopping bag on the counter, and said the radio was in there. He then set another 3 or 4 shopping bags on the counter, and said the radio was in those, too. Turns out his wife took a 5-pound sledge hammer to his 142 because he was on it more than he was on her, and turned it into the mother of all jigsaw puzzles. Needless to say, we told him it probably wouldn't be worth the many many man-hours needed to rebuild his radio out of the various bits and pieces in the bags. He elected to just leave the bags there, and bought himself another radio.
Well, one evening several months later, I got bored and decided to rebuild the thing. It didn't take the hundred hours I thought it would. It DID take a ton of solder and little solid-wire (component lead clippings) jumpers to finally get the circuit board back together, and a bit of time with a hammer and anvil to get the chassis frame straightened out enough to fit the board back in it, but it managed to go back together. Luckily, We had an old 139 case cover lying about, and I was able to make it sort of fit the 142 frame. After getting that all together, and replacing a few physically damaged parts on the board, I fired it up, and I'll be darned if it didn't work like it was new. I didn't even have to align it, it was already on frequency.
I still have that old rig sitting in my shop....
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