Subj : Kits
To : PETER COGGON
From : Bob Ackley
Date : Tue May 01 2007 06:16 am
Replying to a message of PETER COGGON to JASON VIERIK:
PC> Hello Jason and Wayne...
PC> -=> Quoting Jason Vierik to Wayne Chirnside <=-
JV>> Re: Re: Project
JV>> By: WAYNE CHIRNSIDE to ANDY BALL on Sun Mar 18 2007 03:53 pm
>> Who the heck sells kits these days?
>> I'm an old paint by numbers Heathkit guy ( Ann Arbor Mich Co.)
>> but I guess that dates me some.
PC> I liked the Heath Kits too ... we had a outlet here near Toronto
PC> but they disappeared from here, which is still felt by myself and few
PC> others.
I have most of the rack mount audio units Heath put out in the 1980s, and
I built all but two of them (found those on eBay). I also have several other
Heath units, including two televisions. FWIW, Heath was in Benton Harbor,
Michigan, with its factory in adjacent St Joseph, MI.