Another bakelite box plus aluminum top plate ham accessory

I've blogged on these before:

https://wb9kzy.blogspot.com/2023/09/two-examples-of-bakelite-box-plus-top.html

I saw this example on Face, posted by John WA1YIH on the K9YA Telegraph page:

The owner made some mods, adding a pot (Volume) and an RCA jack for the key.  It would have originally just had two screw terminals for connecting a key:

That's the nice thing about this style of kit, easy to modify.

Here is the Eico 706 manual on Archive.org:

https://archive.org/details/eico_eico_model_706_code-practice_oscillator/page/n1/mode/2up

I guess I'm the only one who really likes this style, it was popular in the 1960s.  I was thinking of designing a CPO kit but heard from the owner of a kit company in the UK that they don't sell.
 

I couldn't find the Eico 706 in QST but did see this:

The price inflates to this:

Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm