My Collins KWM-2

Yes, this is how my Collins KWM-2 looked like, after I had started with the restoration job. This was definitely before I got to know the Electric Radio magazine and before I had a chance to learn all those special cleaning methods used by the "boatanchor" community.

Lots of brown stuff covered the characteristic grey, green and aluminum colors of the Collins S-line.

Here is another picture, seen from the back. Of course, the PA tubes are just there to show their position, not for cleaning them.

This is how it looks now after all the work I put into it: clean and shining. A pleasure to look at, a real work of Art.

When I first got it, the Waters rejection tuning was installed. That I had to take out because of several problems it caused. But this left the rejection tuning knob without function - and when I used the rig on the air, I was definitely missing an RIT control. Want to see what I did?