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From: v105l4lg@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (collie)
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Subject: Re: sources for IR scope tubes
Summary: Very little
Keywords: IR, video,(Big Trap)
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Date: 8 Aug 90 05:02:14 GMT
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In article <10846@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>, macminn@powertool.crd.ge.com (Stephen R MacMinn) writes...
>In article <26851@nigel.ee.udel.edu> cygnus@daffy.cis.udel.edu (marc cygnus) writes:
>>...anyone have the beginnings of a clue where I might obtain (relatively
>>inexpensively) infrared tubes suitable for building a small, portable IR
>>sight?

>Funny you should ask!

>I just got a catalog from a surplus house called JERRYCO,
>address is:
>                   JERRYCO Inc.
>                   601 Linden Place
>                   Evanston Illinois, 60202

>....and I noticed that they're selling a complete IR seeker head from a
>sidewinder missile (every kid should have one!). The ad says:
 	
>AIM 9B Sidewinder heat seeking missile guidance device.  It sat in the
>nose of the missile and tracked the infared "signature" of the target
>via a telescopic optical unit.
>  . . . (more)

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     Now the Feds are going to shake down that business for sure,or they're
 trying too trap hardware dealers by posting in that catalog they send you.
	I would stay clear from that kind of business,if I were you.
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>Consists of a cassegrain type telescope mirror asseembly and
>associated electronics including a transmitter and an interrogator.

>The catalog number is 20383 and their price is $98.50

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