Ft-250

This site is dedicated to the FT-250 Radio Mount commonly used to mount specific radios in World War Two vintage jeeps and other vehicles. There are several radio setups for different uses by the US Army during World War Two, and probably a half dozen could and were found installed in jeeps and front line tactical vehicles. Two of the most common w... ere the BC-610 and the BC-659; which along with their respective power supplies were known as the Signal Corp Radio (SCR)-510 and SCR-610 when installed on a vehicle. These two radios along with a BC-1000 (SCR 300), were mounted on the jeeps (and other vehicles) using the FT-250 radio mount. The FT-250 can NOT be used to mount any other radios in vehicles (that I am aware of). In 1998 I purchased a BC-659 to install in my 1942 GPW jeep. I then discovered that original FT-250 radio mounts were next to impossible to find, and very expensive when you did find one for sale. It seems that my restoration projects are always on a tight budget, so I simply could not afford to buy an original mount. However, I did know where one was, and after looking at the mount, I was convinced that I could make one. I studied this mount and "reverse engineered" the mount using the original as a guide. I built one by hand, and found a few errors in my design, but I had a FT-250 for my radio. It was not until after I had spent way too much money and untold hours of working on the mount that I discovered that I had made an exact copy of a FT-250-K model, which was actually made in 1952, and was NOT the same as an original World War Two vintage mount. It was a nice looking mount, but was not "correct" for a WWII vintage vehicle. The whole process was a learning curve, and I learned a lot from my mistakes. I learned that I didn't have to drill all those holes by hand, I could get them laser cut if I had a computer generated drawing. I also learned that I didnt have to bend those angles by hand in my shop, I could get a local sheet metal shop to bend them for me with a 100 ton press brake and ...Read More