Wanted: PRC 25 or 77 manpack radio parts

[maple_leaf_eh]

PRC 25 or 77 manpack radio parts

Looking for two outer shells for the military PRC 25 or 77 manpack radio. I have two battery boxes, and two chassis' with the face plate, but I'm missing the four-sided ribbed aluminum shell that protects the internals. Let me know if you have one (or two), or if you can suggest where I might ask.

Also looking for the canvas and black-painted steel back pack frame.

Note - posted earlier today on another forum, and had some conversation already for the back pack frame and an accessory bag.

[rob love]

Yes, as indicated on the other forum PM, I have lots of headsets, handsets, backpacks, and even a couple of the canvas antenna and accessory pouches.

[daninnm]

I have a back pack that needs a home. $80 plus ship

[maple_leaf_eh]

Thursday afternoons me and a couple of the neighbourhood gents meet for beers (or bourbon) , to discuss the world's problems, and who is causing them .

Yesterday I brought the faceplate for an PRC-77 I bought off flea-bay to triumphantly show off the 3/16"x32 domehead fasteners I'd located way across town. The host is working fine artist, and he is examining the faceplate and we're talking about the next steps. Hold on he says quietly, and disappears inside. Out he comes with a cobweb covered PRC-77 complete! No innards, but externals all there. There was an old fashioned telephone handset wired in somehow, but for appearances it is a prop radio - just like I've been struggling to reconstruct. He got it for some art piece he was working on once upon a time. The muse left him, and it went into the store room for a couple decades.

[Marc Montgomery]

Artists.....
I once went to an art show, one of those boutique art sales shops, on one wall was an
"art piece" consisting of a line of several galvanised, oddly shaped funnels, that had been dipped half way in brass or something to make them 'artsy'.

What they were in reality were a bunch of Lee Enfield ,breech (receiver) funnels, flat on one side to fit against the rifle, with the long curved tip that fit into the chamber to pour hot water down the the barrels to clean them.

Im positive neither the artist nor any visitors had the slightest idea what they were other than oddly shaped. Probably thought the artist made them.

Modern art escapes me. How about a few million for a red striped down the middle of a canvas, and give it a silly name, like, oh..voice of fire.