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Re: VECTOR: Reproduction Tempest spinners?


From: Scott Swazey ( )
Date: Mon Mar 05 2001 - 02:54:22 CST


I'm pretty sure that's a Collins HF radio knob, I put one on a tempest (OK,
I'm not a purest), The Collins knob is about the same diameter, but about
1/8-3/16" shorter. It looks like they duplicated the wrong tempest knob.

-Scott

At 10:43 PM 3/4/01 -0800, Clay Cowgill wrote:
>Weird how you find things on the web. I was digging through my website
>useage logs (like I don't have anything better to do) looking to see who's
>linking to me and after checking out a couple sites ran across this:
>
>http://www.geocities.com/buckey29/main.htm
>
>Click on the "pictures" link to see the reproduction spinner knob.
>
>Anyone have a Tempest spinner with that knob on it? I've never seen one
>with the "wedge" top to it before...
>
>I like the look of his replacement spinner assembly-- that big flywheel
>should spin nicely.
>
>Anyway, it's more MAME oriented, but the thought of a decent Tempest spinner
>knob replacement is kinda cool. I'm goin got toss him an e-mail and ask
>about the knob...
>
>-Clay
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