Modernized Craig L-231 Base

[Johnny Mullet]

So I bought this beautiful 1977 Craig L-231 base some time back and it had issues. I had it at two different shops and still more issues. I replaced the audio chip and recapped it. Slightly better, but poor audio, terrible receiver, and no SSB modulation. No other shops would touch it. I had a small fortune into this rig and was not going to shelf it or trash it, or ship it to another shop and dump more money into it. I basically have a very large flip clock now.

So what do you do? First thing is hack up the internals and gut that chassis you spent all that money on and do it with evil laughter. You upgrade the power supply, upgrade the speaker, add a cooling fan to the inside and install a modern radio of your choice.

 

[Johnny Mullet]

Here it is in it's formal glory....

 

[TM86]

At least you made the best of a bad situation. Maybe I should dig out mine that's missing the flip clock.

 

[Johnny Mullet]

At least you made the best of a bad situation. Maybe I should dig out mine that's missing the flip clock.

If my flip clock dies I will replace it with a digital version.

 

[Shadetree Mechanic]

Those radios look right at home in the Craig chassis. I had @loosecannon put a frequency counter in place of the broken flip clock in my President Madison.